Not only was it declared a tie between Mexican musician Silvana Estrada and Cuban American songwriter Angela Álvarez, but, at 95 years old, Álvarez marked the oldest nominee to be considered in the category. After years of writing and performing music for her friends and family, ...
A notable story is the young Colombian musician Nicolle Horbath, the 2018Carlos VivesScholarship recipient also known as the Prodigy Scholarship. This year, her debut EP,De Magia Imperfecta, received two Latin GRAMMY nominations forBest New Artistand Best Singer-Songwriter Album. Her story is a t...
It was originally named BackRub for its use of so-called back links on the World Wide Web, and the name Google comes from the word “googol”—the number 1 with 100 zeros after it. Google was first listed as a verb in 2006 in the Oxford English Dictionary. #82. Butterfinger Keith ...
At the same time, I am a musician - I have played the violin since I was 8 years old - and I am also part of a male choir in which we sing religious music from the Renaissance, which is mainly in Latin. Who could say that Latin is a... See Valentin's full profile 5.0 (4)...
The song “serves as a love letter to Japan,” the release added, “a country that Rosalía has great love and respect for.” Previously, the musician released “Hentai” from her Motomami album, where she indulges in her cyborg fantasies. The word “hentai” loosely translates t...
Musician Joe Bataan has a similar take on the term: "I don鈥焧 like the word, never did. In fact, I hate it. I consider it insulting and always have" (Waxer, 2002, p. 91). While for some the term itself had a negative connotation, the music also drew harsh criticism from ...
Growing up in Mexico, Mariana de Miguel would hear of Coachella as one of the biggest stages a musician could play on. This week, she’ll fulfill that dream for herself when she performs as Girl Ultra, whose music ranges from electronic dance beats to love ballads. ...
Trained to be on an attack’s front line as a forward, López Crespo hit the ground running and started assembling a team that would help develop the plan for Young Miko’s career. One of the first people she approached was her brother Mauro, a trained musician who was also just starting...
My mother loved music, but she wasn't a musician, and she'd be surprised at the way I've gone into classical music. I've loved it since I played trumpet in an orchestra in my first year of college, when I was 18. Sometimes she would wonder how that happened, but she was always...
Practice, the longest four letter word. Today I'm going to begin a talk about the bane of many a musician's existence. There are musicians who are born with an innate talent to work a musical instrument but never get out of their meager rut of an existence because they don't know how...