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Latin Music History: Spanish-Language Albums Are Nos. 1 & 2 for the First Time on Billboard 200 Chart
It's a historic week for Latin music on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart. For the first time in the chart's 69-year ...
Why much of Mexico is banning pop ballads about drug traffickers
Narcocorridos — or drug ballads — are more popular than ever in Mexico, where a generation that came of age during the drug ...
Why Mexico is banning drug war ballads
Narcocorridos — or drug ballads — are more popular than ever in Mexico, where a generation that came of age during the drug ...
Pop anthems for drug traffickers are now global hits. Why is Mexico banning them?
Narcocorridos — or drug ballads — are more popular than ever in Mexico, where a generation that came of age during the drug ...
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Mexican musician embraces, repurposes contentious genre
Two days before her new album was launched, musical icon Vivir Quintana was behind barbed wire at a women’s prison in Mexico. The singer had spent the past 10 years visiting women incarc ...