What’s better than one diva headlining this year’s Super Bowl LIV Halftime show? Two! Repping Latina talent from Barranquilla to the Bronx, Colombian rock-pop queen Shakira and Nuyorican superstar Jennifer Lopez touched down on Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium Sunday night — and put on a show you “can’t remember to …
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Two months ago, Awez Darbar, an Indian dancer and choreographer with a sizable following — 1.7 million subscribers on YouTube and close to 19 million followers on TikTok — posted a new dance video online. Most of his clips are set to songs that are popular in India; occasionally Darbar …
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Lil Nas X continues to enjoy the Number One spot on Rolling Stone‘s Top 100 chart, handily out-streaming this week’s runner-up, Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello’s duet “Señorita.” No new songs made it into the Top Ten last week, so the ranking was mostly populated by familiar titles from Drake, …
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Janelle Monáe, Lil Wayne and Tame Impala are among the initial acts unveiled for Lollapalooza 2019, which will return to Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois this summer, from August 1st through August 4th. The festival revealed the first wave of acts via a video made in collaboration with animal shelter …
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What doAriana Grande, Travis Scott and J Balvin have in common? All were spurned to some degree by Grammy voters. The nominations for the 2019 awards ceremonywere announced on Friday morning, with Kendrick Lamar, Cardi B and Lady Gaga each picking up multiple nods in major categories. But each year, …
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J Balvin performed a medley of tracks from his Number OneVibrasalbumat the Latin Grammys in Las Vegas on Thursday. Mexican singer Carla Morrison opened the performance — just as she opensVibras — crooning the title track. On the album, her vocals serve as a perfect segue into the insta-classic “Mi …
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ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Pusha-T, Daytona “I predict snow/Al Roker,” raps Pusha-T on this seven-track project’s “If You Know You Know.” But Daytona is more than just drug tales from a rapper who has specialized in coke rap since the dawn of the Aughts. As a master of metaphor and …
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J Balvin spoke about working with Beyoncé on the remix of “Mi Gente” and solidifying reggaeton’s spot in the pop music landscape during an interview with Ebro Darden on Beats 1. “I just work with people that I love and respect, that inspire me to be a better person, a …
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Colombian reggaeton singer J Balvin will embark on a 27-date U.S. tour this fall, following the release of his highly anticipated album, Vibras, out May 25th. The tour kicks off September 19th in Fresno and concludes October 28th in Miami. The announcement follows Balvin’s surprise cameo during Beyoncé’s second Coachella …
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