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After working a few years in the fashion industry, Valentina Pozo felt that she hadn’t seen the full potential for a space for Latin art, design, community, and hospitality realized. The result? She founded her own: TUMBAO. TUMBAO, launched two years ago, is a pop-up concept showcasing the work of emerging Latin American designers, creatives and artists.  Weaving short-term retail experiences with a contemporary celebration of Latinidad, TUMBAO uses fashion […]

Visual artist Yvette Mayorga tells Latina stories through the aesthetics of confection, using pastry piping bags filled with acrylic to create her richly textured paintings, sculptures and installations. This process is inspired by the confection and pastry work of her Mexican mother and tías, who labored to support their families in a new and unfamiliar country. Mayorga’s work draws from Mexican-American lifeways and European art history to comment on colonialism […]

What happens when you mix your love for soccer and your love for photography? You create your own World Cup players cards! Or at least that’s what Monica Zulema did. The idea came to the 23-year-old LA-based photographer about a year and half ago, when she was working a retail job and searching for soccer posters to decorate her bedroom. She found vintage images of women in soccer jerseys, which […]

Many musicians, artists and bands get stymied when it’s time to post YouTube videos other than those that are directly music-related. That said, there are a number of types of videos that you can easily create without the hassle of a big production. Here are 5 that you can probably make with no problem right now. When you make them, remember that it’s always better to show instead of tell, […]

Netflix’s stab at the infamous Addams Family arc concentrates on the titular teenager Wednesday, played by Jenna Ortega. The eight-episode season, shot in Bucharest, Romania and executive produced by Tim Burton, inspects a macabre chain of murders that take place at Gomez (Luis Guzmán) and Morticia Addams’s (Catherine Zeta-Jones) alma mater, Nevermore Academy. The New York-bred actor Luis Guzmán plays the new Gomez, who was famously played by fellow Puerto […]

Welcome to LATINA’s weekly roundup of the best new music. This week’s list includes the new album from María Becerra and the return of Paloma Mami, while Camila Cabello embraces Afrobeats alongside Oxlade in “Ku Lo Sa.” Also on the list: Chiquis honors the memory of her mom Jenni Rivera in “Paloma Blanca,” Natti Natasha celebrates her birthday with “To’ Esto Es Tuyo,” and Karol G joins the “Puss in […]

Last year was the a big one for artists on TikTok, as a viral hit would spike Spotify streams and have labels calling with million dollar deals if the act was unsigned. This year the industry has soured on the platform as increasing it looks like the TikTok music era will be much different moving forward. That’s not to say that you still can’t have a hit as a result […]

Home / Inner Circle Podcast / Songwriter Sam Hollander, Spotify Billion Stream Songs, And The Most Dangerous Audio Software On My Latest Podcast On my latest podcast episode: Hit songwriter Sam Hollander talks about sticking it out despite many years of failures, his collaboration technique, reading the body language of your co-writers, writing for different genres, his work in television, his new book, and much more. Spotify’s enormous list of […]

There are some indications that streaming numbers may be leveling off, but that doesn’t mean that sector of the business isn’t growing. In fact, Luminate (who used to be called Nielsen Music) found that streams hit the one trillion (that’s with a T) last year. And this was in the U.S. alone with still a month to go in the year! A trillion is a big number and difficult to […]