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Estevan and Alejandro Gutiérrez are this week's guest on Alt.Latino Larry Niehues/Courtesy of the Artist hide caption
Hermanos Gutiérrez: How their cinematic guitar music reconnected them as brothers
Cuban singer Pablo Milanes performs at the Ciudad Deportiva Coliseo in Havana, Cuba, on June 21, 2022. Milanes, the Latin Grammy-winning balladeer who helped found Cuba's "nueva trova" movement and toured the world as a cultural ambassador for Fidel Castro's revolution, died early Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, in Spain, where he had been under treatment for blood cancer. Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Artists featured on the best music of October episode (from top left, clockwise): Maral, Open Mike Eagle, Natalia Lafourcade, Víkingur Ólafsson, Plains. Courtesy of the artists hide caption
NPR's favorite music of October, from ancestral grooves to hip-hop nostalgia
For Guitarricadelafuente, looking back on the traditions of his grandparents' tiny village in Aragon is a way of reconstructing a home and identity that he can actually make sense of. David Gomez-Maestre hide caption
Drawing on folk traditions, Spanish musician Guitarricadelafuente bridges generations
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Singer and songwriter iLe's third album, 'Nacarile,' finds a world deeply in flux
Farruko performs a Tiny Desk concert. Bob Boilen/NPR hide caption
Espooky season has arrived. Ashley Sandberg/EyeEm/Getty images hide caption
Tokischa performs a Tiny Desk concert. Bob Boilen/NPR hide caption
Lucrecia Dalt has become one of modern music's most fascinating chameleons. Pedro Nekoi for NPR hide caption
Carla Morrison performs a Tiny Desk concert. NPR hide caption
Anamaria Sayre, co-host of NPR's Alt.Latino Mike Morgan/NPR hide caption
Alt.Latino's Anamaria Sayre on World Cafe
"I think that modernity is good for us." Susana Baca tells NPR. Javier Falcon hide caption
Susana Baca performs a Tiny Desk (home) concert. NPR hide caption
Unreleased in its entirety until now, Brazilian singer-songwriter Joyce Moreno's Natureza is a snapshot of the artist on her own terms. Leo Aversa hide caption
Once regarded as an incorruptible pillar of tradition, the marimba becomes a revolutionary rock 'n' roll instrument for band Son Rompe Pera. Pedro Nekoi for NPR hide caption
Jessie Reyez performs a Tiny Desk concert Estefania Mitre/NPR hide caption
Trueno performs a Tiny Desk (home) concert. NPR hide caption
In his queer reworking of sertanejo, Gabeu flips the image of the macho cowboy on its head. Pedro Nekoi for NPR hide caption
"I feel like an instrument becomes like another limb in your body," Girl Ultra's Mariana de Miguel tells NPR Music about learning to play the guitar. Eugenio Schulz hide caption