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Why Chico Buarque Deserves a Nobel Prize

AQ’s music columnist looks back on the versatile Brazilian musician’s storied, six-decade career.

AQ’s music columnist collects releases from across the region that straddle the divide between electronic and traditional tunes.

From São Paulo to Havana, surprising musical and cultural combinations mark AQ’s music critic’s warm-weather selection.

AQ’s music critic highlights the lingering power of the human voice in this roundup of tracks old and new.

Our music critic highlights songwriters refashioning high-flown poetic themes—and the low rhythms of the double bass.

Our music columnist’s latest round-up features love songs and social commentary from across Latin America.

AQ’s music critic presents highlights from the Cubadisco awards in Havana.

This selection of recent releases features desert-inspired guitars from Ecuador, folk wisdom from Chile and tongue-in-cheek Brazilian wordplay.

A selection of new Latin American releases, to warm a cold Northern night or dance a Southern summer night away.

A pyrotechnic Brazilian pianist and a transgender Mexican “witch” put daring new twists on established musical convention.

A new collaboration has led to Ecuadorian singer Mariela Condo’s first album in five years.

AQ’s last playlist of 2020 features a group of Brazilian performers who met a difficult year head-on.

With Haitian rhythms and Spanish lyrics, Ralph Jean Baptiste shows integration is possible for other migrants.

Our musical recommendations for a spring spent indoors, from foot-tapping Brazilian soul to a Guatemalan composer’s experiments with classical sound.

With Haitian rhythms and Spanish lyrics, Ralph Jean Baptiste shows integration is possible for other migrants.