El Nuevo Día reports that in Puerto Rico, Beta-Local’s
El Serrucho 2021 will be awarding eight scholarships of $10,000 each for a total of $80,000, thanks to the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation, and A Friends’ Foundation Trust. The deadline for applications (available at www.betalocal.org) is Wednesday, June 16, at 11:59pm (EST).
The Beta-Local cultural organization announced the sixth round of El Serrucho, an artistic production grant that supports independent and self-organized cultural work in Puerto Rico. On this occasion, El Serrucho is specifically aimed at projects by collectives and organizations from various artistic disciplines, managed by artists and oriented towards cultural production.
Regional Latin music on the rise: Colombian genres
In part 2 of Chartmetric’s exploration of Latin music’s regional rise, we dive into how global music streaming platforms are fueling the rise in popularity of genres like Vallenato, Colombian Popular Music, Cumbia, and Champeta throughout the world.
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Francisco Toscano of Chartmetric
Colombian stars Paola Jara and Jessi Uribe are part of Colombia’s movement, as its regional music goes international.
As we explored in Part 1 of this series about Mexico, the explosion of digital platforms has not only propelled the careers of mainstream Pop and Hip-Hop acts, but it has also helped to bring the world’s regional Latin music genres into the limelight. Latin America, being such a big market economically, culturally, and geographically, has countless regional Latin music genres to offer; and the possibility of any of them crossing over to regional success is real. One country in particular has managed to become an