About Radio Latino
Partnership with Smithsonian Global Sound

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Over 42 million Latinos make the United States their home. One out of eight Americans uses labels like Latino, Hispanic, Tejano, Chicano, Mexicano, New Yorican, Cuban, Nuevomexicano, salvadoreño, and colombiano to point to their Spanish-speaking heritage in Latin America or the United States. ront page news proclaims Hispanics the largest minority group and the fastest growing segment of the population, having more than doubled since 1980 and accounted for half the total population growth since 2001. In the past decade, the highest rates of Hispanic growth have been not in California, Texas, New York, Miami, Chicago, and other long-time Latino strongholds, but in states such as Arkansas, Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Hand-in-hand with the burgeoning Latino population has come an equal infusion of Latino music, usually called música latina in the windows and bins of record stores.

 

In 2001, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage joined the Smithsonian Latino Center in a collaboration to bring grassroots Latino musicians and music to the fore of Smithsonian programming and American life.  Since then, nineteen  new recordings of Latino music, three major programs of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and a new virtual exhibit in the making, Música del   Pueblo, have taken the sounds and faces of música latina to many million s of visitors and listeners. Radio Latino is the latest addition to this collaboration. It draws from the Latino audio holdings of the Folkways Collections—old and new—creating a cultural pastiche of sounds, styles, and cultures that hint at the vast cornucopia of music and cultural expression in the Latino world.

 

Radio Latino Play List:

SFW40516_101
Yo soy Chicano
Los Alvarados

 

PAR01048_103
Un Gigante Que Despierta (An Awakening Giant)
Luis Godoy and Grupo Mancotal

SFW40470_106
Canção do Orpheo
Luiz Bonfá

 

SFW40505_101
La Bamba
José Gutiérrez & Los Hermanos Ochoa

FW08748_206
Las naranjas
Rolando Alarcon

SFW40461_109
Yo canto en el llano
Cuerteto Patria featuring Compay Segundo

 

SFW40515_103
Pajarillo
Grupo Cimarrón

 

SFW40477_102
La Sicodelicao Polka
Ernesto Guerra y su Conjunto

SFW40471_113
El Choclo (Tango Criollo)
René Marino Rivero

 

SFW40519_107
Isla Nena (Little Girl Island)
Los Pleneros de la 21

SFW40517_110
México Lindo - Pretty Mexico
Nati Cano's Mariachi Los Camperos

 

SFW40531_102
Sigan Bailando (Keep On Dancing)
Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto

SFW40483_109
Luzes do Rio (Lights of Rio)
Luiz Bonfá

 

SFW40495_103
Baile de los Palos (palos)
Conjunto Folklórico de Alianza Dominicana

 

SFW40513_108
Mayelá (bomba)
Viento De Agua

 

SFW40536_112
Yo Quiero a María (I Love María)
Arpex

SFW40506_113
Los gallos cantaron (The Roosters Sang)
Ecos de Borinquen

 

SFW40505_108
Huapanguerito (Huapango Singer)
José Gutiérrez & Los Hermanos Ochoa

SFW40516_114
El tilingo lingo
Los Lobos del Este de Los Angeles

 

SFW40488_106
Grande João Grande
Grupo de Capoeira Angola Pelourinho

 

SFW40475_102
El Moro de Cumpas
Robert Lee Benton, Jr. and Oscar Gonzalez

 

SFW40470_105
Seis Mapeyé
Cuerdas de Borínquen

 

FW08844_102
El Carite
Dance of Venezuela

 

FW04244_203
Me duele - It Pains Me
Francisco Tepas

 

FW04244_208
Jawbone and Marimba Music
Pedro and Jose Musto with Sylvester Xijache

 

SFW40514_101
El botellón (The jug)
Grupo Naidy

SFW40516_118
VietnamVeterano
Al Reyes

 

SFW40519_108
Madame Calalú
Los Pleneros de la 21

SFW40515_116
Las tres damas
Grupo Cimarrón

 

SFW40532_106
Casi, Casi - Almost, Almost (bailecito)
Suni Paz

SFW40514_109
¿A cómo vende la piangua? (How much is the piangua?)
Grupo Naidy

 

SFW40047_105
Aguinaldo Jibaro
Familia Colon

 

SFW40506_112
Marumba a Guadiana (Marumba for Guadiana)
Ecos de Borinquen

 

SFW40477_101
El Burro Pardo (The Roan Donkey)
Gilberto Perez y sus Compadres

SFW40431_107
Sentimiento Gaucho
René Marino Rivero

 

SFW45055_114
A la limon (To the Lemon)
Suni Paz

SFW40459_101
Los Arrieros
Nati Cano's Mariachi Los Camperos