Let's talk Latin America
Let's talk Latin America
BristoLatino Editor-in-Chief Rebecca Wilson discusses Lido Pimienta’s music, and the harsh backlash against her following an incident at a Halifax show in October. In September this year, BristoLatino favourite Lido Pimienta won Canada’s most important music award, the Polaris Prize. The Colombian artist’s influences come not only from Afro-Colombian rhythms and melodies, but from the […]
BristoLatino music editor Rebecca Wilson tells us all we need to know about ChocQuibTown, the Latin Grammy Award-winning Afro-Colombian hip-hop group Who? Tropical hip-hop from Tostao (young percussionist), Goyo (female MC, singer and producer), Slow Mike (Goya’s brother, young beatmaker and technofile), and many other musicians. Where? Founded in their town Quibdó, capital city of the Chocó […]
Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza’s 2012 debut is a beautiful and fascinating insight into Colombia’s biggest Afro-Latino community. Sophie Wall As with many Latin American countries, Colombia’s black population is unrepresented both in politics and in the mainstream media. This is despite the fact that Afro-Colombians constitute over 10% of the country’s people; in fact, Colombia is considered to have the […]