With the the biggest meeting of entrepreneurs and digital media innovators in the world just around the corner at SXSW, the Revolucionario Awards are honoring Latinos in social media.
The Puerto Rican duet Calle 13 threw a message to the world with their success in 2011: Latin America is making a significant mark in the world of music.
Calle 13 has created a partnership with UNICEF, MTV Latin America and Tr3s to launch the global campaign "MTV EXIT" which seeks to raise awareness about human rights, exploitation and human trafficking in Latin America and Spanish-speaking communities in the U.S.
Calle 13, a Puerto Rican hip-hop group with Pan-American music, rebellious politics and a raunchy sense of humor, triumphed at the 12th annual Latin Grammy Awards. “Entren Los Que Quieran” is Calle 13’s second album in a row to be named Album of the Year.
The biggest night in Latin music hits Sin City this Thursday--The Latin Grammys at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay.
When the dead are alone, they chat very pleasantly amongst themselves and tell each other things; they tell each other their stories. It must be very interesting to live inside a cemetery and hear how the dead tell each other things, their sorrows, their joys, everything. — Cuban poet Eliseo Diego
If you listen to it carefully, Latin Music can tell you many things about Latin America and its people.
Calle 13, the Latin Grammy favorites who cull multiple nominations for the award with every album they release, have done it again. The duo, which already has 10 Latin Grammy awards under its belt -- is now up for 10 more, a new record.