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Football Americano? Nah…
I’ve never been fond of this so-called sport and was not going to watch it this year either, but…
I just learned that San Antonio’s renowned mini mariachi singer, Mateo López, is the star of one of the ads.
According to KSAT, the seven-year-old makes a brief appeareance in Smith’s minute-long commercial promoting the premiere of the revamped “Bel-Air,” a spinoff series from “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”
So, yup, babies, I’ll be watching!
Just look at him! 😍
Via: KSAT.com
The East Los Angeles-band Las Cafeteras has partnered with the New Georgia Project to create a Spanglish version of the iconic song “Georgia on My Mind” to support Black and Hispanic participation in the Georgia US Senate Runoffs.
“We re-imagined the song as a cumbia w/trap elements to build bridges among the changing demographics in the South,” said Las Cafeteras on their YouTube channel. According to NBC, the The Latino electorate in Georgia is relatively young, and many are U.S.-born children of immigrants. Latinos are about 380,000 out of the 7.5 million eligible voters in Georgia overall, per the Pew Research Center.
The runoff elections, which will take place January 5, are very important as they will determine if Republicans or Democrats control the U.S. Senate.
The catchy song was launched with a video directed by Roberto Escamilla Garduno and Giovanni Solis. It tells a story of all those who are looking to Georgia, travelling to the state “to amplify the voices of the people organizing to #FinishTheFight”
WATCH. DANCE. VOTE. HELP FLIP GEORGIA:
Via: NBC
Chances are this blogger will be terribly busy sleeping working on Saturday, July 4, but wanted to let y’all know, I’m all up for diversity. So, without further ado, please enjoy this rendition of The Star Spangled Banner by one of many of the awesome mariachi bands found in Chicago.
HAPPY CUATRO DE CINCOU DE JULIO!
I don’t know what to think, really, but why not?
Snoop Dogg and Banda Ms on Friday released Qué Maldición, a long awaited collaboration between America’s famed pothead and the Sinaloa insanely popular band. It’s by far the weirdest Anglo-Latin collaboration I’ve seen in a long time and I’m not sure I’m 100 percent sold.
Watch & listen at your own peril. I’ll be somewhere still trying to figure out 2020.
Hat tip: The great Mafer
I’ve never been a fan of so-called American football –and you wouldn’t catch me dead watching hours upon hours of a Super Bowl. But all this will very likely change on Sunday, February 2, 2020 when my favorite band EVER is set to star in the opening video for Fox Sports’ broadcast of Super Bowl LIV.
Per a company press release:
Los Tigres del Norte and FOX Deportes joined forces for the first time to create a video, filmed in San Jose, celebrating the legacy of Los Tigres del Norte, the 100 seasons of the NFL, and the passion felt by Hispanics for football.
Okay, I might just watch my tigres doing their thing and then move onto more interesting things (happy hour at my local pub probably), but still… ¡Ajúa!
Via: Fox Sports
Kia Latino, which is like regular Kia but Latino, has given us some marketing jewels in the past, including the use of female mariachis to show they really, really, care about my people (i.e. The Hispanics) and diversity. And now, they want to remind us that Thanksgiving is a great time of the year to be thankful.
Thankful for… the specs of our cars, naturally.
Take the following Twitter ad, in which we find our “typical” Latino family passing around –what else?– tamales during what looks to be a very special Thanksgiving meal. The exchange (in an accented Spanish) goes something like this:
-Ramiro, what are you thankful for?
-I’m thankful for the engine, and its 240 horsepower; the heated seats and the heated steering wheel… an 8-inch smart touchscreen…
[DIALOGUE FADES]
I’m a bit suspicious about these particular Latinos as I would only be thankful for tamales. But hey, that’s me!
Now. What are YOU thankful for?
Hay muchas cosas por las cuales dar #gracias. Tu #KiaSportage es una de ellas. #GiveItEverything #HappyThanksgiving #Thanksgiving pic.twitter.com/kHwugJWuNA
— Kia Latino (@kialatino) November 25, 2019
As a guitar enthusiast (and not very good player) I’m always looking around for music and guitar-related stuff online, but I honestly wasn’t ready for this.
Mexican music shop Holocausto Music is being around for over 20 years and –apparently– nobody has ever blinked at their… unusual moniker. Featuring two 1,500-square meters stores in Mexico, the Fender Custom shop has also been the recipient of multiple awards, including one by Fender Guitars itself.
I want to believe they’re not ill intentioned. I guess they just didn’t think this through –or never took History in school.
¡Ay, caramba!
Photo via: Reddit
You probably don’t know this, but José José (né José Rómulo Sosa Ortiz) was not only one of my favorite Mexican singers; he was pretty much responsible for a lot of crying during my yesteryears. So many of my memories from Mexico are intrinsically linked to a José José song: The first time I got drunk (on a disgusting bottle of Padre Kino white wine;) my first kiss; my first heart break…
I don’t exaggerate when I say José José was the soundtrack of my family life back in Mexico growing up. And, just like Juan Gabriel, another Mexican grande who left too soon, José José was already a staple in my home way before the hipsters or younger people discovered his beautiful voice. Awwww, the parties in San Pedro de los Pinos with us singing out loud to the tune of No me digas que te vas, El triste, Gavilán o paloma or Si me dejas ahora, my mom’s personal favorite.
I’m not sure heaven exists, but if it does my mom is in for a big fiesta with two giants who –just like her– left us way too soon.
Go serenade my mom, príncipe…
According to numerous reports, Amazon is asking customers to participate in a program that will help the company build “a Spanish-language Alexa experience” for U.S. users. The program, which is currently invite-only, “will allow Amazon to incorporate into the U.S. Spanish-language experience a better understanding of things like word choice and local humor.”
This couldn’t come soon enough because last time we checked, Alexa was doing *this*…
Alexa will soon speak Spanish and that’s great, because last time we checked she was doing *this* 👇🏽 https://t.co/htgha8TqoL pic.twitter.com/gbY9bfdlxX
— Laura Martínez (@miblogestublog) 4 de mayo de 2019
Via: CNET.com
The season finale of Game of Thrones is upon us, so it’s only appropriate to share this –again– and enjoy the best rendition ever of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire.
¡Ajúa!
Via: YouTube
If you are not Hispanic or –like me– are not a fan of rap, chances are you have never heard of Chingo Bling, but he has a new single out and it has the best title ever. They Can’t Deport Us All features a comedic take on the always exciting Migra vs. Mexicans action at the border. (According to several press reports, there are people who were not pleased by the name of this album, but what are you going to do?)
The lyrics are also funny –and racy– as hell. Take a listen and remember: They Can’t Deport Us All.
And just when I thought Thalía had retired and/or decided to dedicate her free time tending to her kids and her fancy Manhattan life and such, she has taken over my Twitter timeline to pitch her new reggaeton single.
Titled No me acuerdo (I Don’t Remember) this “thing” is a collaboration with Dominican singer Natti Natasha and it can be found on Spotify’s Latino Caliente playlist –because where else?
Go ahead and listen if you dare. It sounds exactly like what you’d expect from a Latino Caliente thing.
Ya pueden escuchar mi nueva canción #NoMeAcuerdo con @NattiNatasha en el #LatinoCaliente playlist de @AppleMusic. 💥💥💥 You can check out my new song #NMA with #NattiNatasha on the #LatinoCaliente playlist on #AppleMusic. Listen HERE:https://t.co/9bkRFuNkQW#Thalia #THNN pic.twitter.com/XjykWqErU2
— Thalia (@thalia) 2 de junio de 2018
With president Donald Trump’s “bold, historic decision” to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, this blogger could not help but reminisce over that other bold, historic –and truly bizarre– move made by three of Latin America’s tackiest stars to help praise Israel as an awesome tourist destination, and not a place one should be afraid of because of the killings and all.
En tus tierras bailaré (In Your Land I Will Dance) features Andean superstars La Tigresa del Oriente, Wendy Sulca and Delfín Hasta el Fin, and while it was released in 2010, it continues to gain popularity. At the time of this writing, the video had gone way over the 4.6 million views on YouTube.
I’m not sure how these three got together to help promote tourism in Israel, but I must admit the chorus is quite catchy.
How pretty Israel is!
Israel, Israel
In your lands one day I’ll dance.
On her solo, Wendy Sulca praises Tel Aviv as a camel (yes, a camel) walks past her band while she sings: In Tel Aviv, I will love you, I will love you very much…
Just WATCH and behold the Andean costumes, the changing landscapes and the ebullient dancing in this, the campiest music video you’ll ever see.
For more insights to the above video, and background of these Andean artists, read Alma Guillermoprieto’s wonderful take here.
Hat tip: @Saltasolt
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