navidad

During the Christmas season, many Puerto Rican churches transform their hymns into jíbaro rhythms. We owe this modality of the Misa Jíbara to the late professor and folklorist Pedro Escabí. When in the early 1960s the Vatican Council II…

We had the pleasure of visiting Puerto Rican singer-songwriter José Nogueras in his studio to talk about his career, Christmas, his album"A Gozar la Fiesta", Parrandas, Tite Curet Alonso, Cheo Feliciano, and so many other things.…

Cheo Feliciano's Salsa Navideña classic, "Felicidades" celebrates its 48th anniversary this year. A Salsa Dura album with great flavor, "Felicidades" became a perfect complement to the few existing Salsa Navideña music albums that had been…

It's Christmas, and José Nogueras brings us his album #40 with "La Vivo y La Gozo". The long-awaited Christmas production includes nine songs to celebrate the holidays. Music in "La Vivo y La Gozo". The music in "La Vivo y La Gozo" is…

The new Christmas special from Banco Popular "Tiempos de Aguinaldo" is here, and the two critics in my household are not too enthused about it. "Tiempos de Aguinaldo" Theme As the title implies, the theme for the 2019 Christmas…

"Tarjeta de Navidad" es la más reciente grabación de los Cantores de Bayamón. El CD contiene 9 canciones para alegrar el ambiente en la Navidad. De las 9 canciones en "Tarjeta de Navidad", 2 son originales y las otras 7 son medleys de…

I was browsing through my Christmas music genre and noticed I have collected a relatively long list of recordings in this Latin music category. At the beginning of the decade, all I had was a handful of albums, most had been with me for…