2 Mexicans, a Spaniard, and one hot British girl. Jenny is the one playing the trumpet.

Band from Leeds, England tagged the “New Radiohead” by lazy music critics. Won several awards with their 2012 debut “An Awesome Wave” but not so much for their superior follow-up “This Is All Yours.” Originally called Daljit Dhaliwal after the luscious BBC news anchor but the band needed a name they themselves could spell. Ms.[…]

Huge in her native Chile, big in the rest of South America, a rabid cult following in Europe, hard to find in the United States. To the Spanish challenged listener, Camila Moreno must be singing about social injustice and feminist empowerment – but her lyrics are mostly surreal allusions to love, death, and heartbreak. And[…]

Born in California to world famous Chilean biochemists, Francisca rocketed to Latin American fame with her debut album Muérdete La Lengua, recorded in Chile and financed with lots of biochemical money. Her second equally impressive album Buen Soldado solidified her reputation as one of the brightest stars of Chile’s current pop explosion.

Not everyone coming out of Iceland sounds like Björk. Kaleo’s sound is closer to raw Southern blues (‘southern’ as in Mississippi Delta, not Hornafjörður Fjord) than ethereal wind chimes. If you’ve played FIFA 16, watched Blindspot, the finale of Suits, or trailers for Logan, Orange is the New Black or HBO’s Vinyl, then you’ve heard[…]

Daughter of director Fernando Sariñana and writer Carolina Rivera. She started her acting career as an 11 year old telenovela villain and has since become an established film star in Mexico. She sings in a jazzy flat croon, songs of self-introspective seduction.

L.A.-based Mexican-American band create an eclectic guisado of cumbias, corridos, elegant mambos, and raw rock ‘n’ roll. “Treinta Dias” won a Grammy for best Latin rock or alternative recording. Their name comes from Saint Cecilia, patron saint of music.

In a middle school production of the Music Man, Samantha Gongol and Jeremy Lloyd played the leads Marian Paroo and Harold Hill. When their paths crossed years later, they formed an EDM duo that combines Jeremy’s technical wizardry with Samantha’s sultry singing. The Marian Hill formula: Jeremy lays down a beat over which Samantha adds[…]

With fellow Brazilian musicians Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, and Gal Costa, the band Os Mutantes formed an artistic collective known as Tropicália which sought a “cultural cannibalism” of traditional Brazilian art with foreign influences to create something that reflected the inherent contradictions of Brazilian society in the late 1960’s. Though the Tropicália movement[…]

Ikah is the stage name of Spanish R&B singer Penélope Solís from Madrid. Ikah means “followers” in Hawaiian, “reed” in Hindi, and “squid” in Japanese.