Moderated by BMI Vice President, Latin Music, Delia Orjuela, BMI’s “How I Wrote that Song®” panel, scheduled for April 23 at the JW Marriott Marquis in Miami, brings Latin music’s biggest stars to the Billboard Latin Music Conference for an exclusive behind-the-scenes discussion on crafting some of the genre’s biggest… Read more...
What do you get when you mix the national music of the Dominican Republic with North American hip-hop? How about a new style of Latin popular music which looks poised to explode internationally? Called merengue urbano (or “urban merengue”), it blends fast-paced, aggressive tropical merengue with urban hip-hop, rap and… Read more...
References to the Northeastern Mexican city of Monterrey as “the Seattle of Mexico” have been around as long as the term “grunge.” It’s hard to talk about the Mexican rock scene or Latin alternative music without mentioning many of the American and British bands like Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails or… Read more...
The thousand-mile distance from Miami to San Juan is much closer on the musical map. Formed in Florida and now based in Puerto Rico, La Secta Allstar, consisting of vocalist Gustavo Laureano, bassist Mark Kilpatrick, drummer John Lengel and guitarist Mikey Genao, is a band with a decade and a… Read more...
Porfirio Pina, BMI’s Director of Latin Music, hosted a career day at the BMI New York office on February 20, with high school seniors who are member of ASPIRA Leadership Clubs. The workshop session focused on careers in the music industry, and included speakers Mark Barron and Preston Pearson of… Read more...
The fusion of Latin and urban elements in hip-hop has led to the creation of a genre that continues to mark the Latino presence in the realm of music. In tribute to the growth of this genre, BMI presented "Al Otro Lado del Hip-Hop: A Celebration of Urban and Latin… Read more...
