Nigerian Oluwatosin Ajibade is an afrobeats star who has toured with J Balvin, made tracks with Bad Bunny and Beyoncé and travels the world to discover new musical talent. His dream is a more just music industry in which African labels get a larger share of the profits
Although her birth certificate says her name is María Victoria Ramírez de Arellano, her audience (including 26 million monthly listeners on Spotify) knows her as Young Miko. This Puerto Rican reggaeton star, and the face of Loewe’s new ad campaign, is a global artist with the blessing of Karol G and Bad Bunny. Her adventures have just begun
No one does trap like the Puerto Rican Eladio Carrión, who started making funny videos on social media and is now selling out stadiums across the world, cleverly sidestepping the clichés of his genre
The politician, who has been in office since the assassination of president Jovenel Moïse in 2021, announced from Puerto Rico that he will step down once a transitional council is formed to lead the country
‘La Brega’ is a bilingual program that talks about racism, environmental challenges, and colonialism on the island and among the diaspora
He is an iconic Puerto Rican rapper and a transcendental voice for Latin America. Two decades after his alternative rap group Calle 13 was founded, he’s releasing his second solo album later this month. Blunt and brave, he speaks to EL PAÍS candidly about his struggles with depression, the global issues that distress him and the indifference of new musical stars
Lorraine León Ramírez, mother of two sons who have Afros, said her youngest was banned from attending two different schools until he cut his hair
Two centuries after the speech that inaugurated the United States’ policy toward the region, five Democratic lawmakers call for an end to the Cuban embargo and the declassification of secret CIA files, as well as reforms to the IMF and the OAS
The Puerto Rican musician is one of the biggest in the world. But for how long? It’s up to him
The Puerto Rican singer left college to focus on his music, and the bet paid off. Now, his name is synonymous with streaming milestones, successful collaborations and number one songs on all the charts
The $500 million in grants came from last year’s CHIPS and Science Act to stimulate investments in new technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing and biotech
The Puerto Rican artist returns to his trap and experimental beginnings in a non-commercial work called ‘Nadie sabe lo que va a pasar mañana’
An augmented reality filter by a Puerto Rican advertising agency and supermarket chain suggests new uses for old groceries
It is not expected to make landfall, but meteorologists warned it would generate dangerous waves of up to 15 feet (5 meters) across the northern coast of Puerto Rico and other nearby islands
Lee’s projected path takes it near the northeast Caribbean but it is not expected to make landfall
Spain defeated Brazil 96-78, and the Americans beat Greece 109-81
The plan filed by a federal control board that oversees the U.S. territory’s finances would cut the debt of Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority by nearly 80% to some $2.5 billion
Persecuted by the police and popularized on the streets of the Caribbean island, a subculture emerged in the mid-1990s that is now sweeping the world. EL PAÍS visited the home turf of reggaeton, to meet the movement’s old and new heroes
San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero has signed a new measure to prohibit alcohol sales after certain hours. The code is scheduled to go into effect in November
The Puerto Rican artist is adored by pop stars such as Shakira and Rosalía, has 12 Grammys and is the most-viewed musician on YouTube. But he insists that he leads a family life far from that of a ‘rockstar’
An exhibition in Washington DC and a book by historian Daniel Immerwahr take stock of the conflictive relationship between the United States and its colonies. ‘It’s reasonable to think that Puerto Rico could become a state in the next 15 years,’ Immerwahr notes
The National Hurricane Center in Miami says the storm is expected to pummel some eastern Caribbean islands late Thursday at near hurricane strength
Police believe the target of the shooting was a man in his 20s who was killed at the Piel Kanela bar in San Juan when assailants in cars opened fire during a birthday celebration early Sunday
The so-called regional genre is reaching historic heights of popularity and is gaining international fame thanks to a new generation of young artists
Twenty-five U.S. jurisdictions have legalized the drug, while others have only decriminalized. If you’re traveling, make sure to avoid legal issues
Carliz De La Cruz Hernández claimed in a lawsuit filed in a Puerto Rico court that her voice and the phrase ‘Bad Bunny, baby,’ are being used without her permission
The island only recently started permanent repairs on an aging power grid razed by Hurricane Maria, a Category 4 storm that struck the island in September 2017
