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    Bad Bunny takes flight and Chente is laid to rest: The year in Latin music

    Many Latin artists emerged from the first throes of the pandemic taking bolder risks than ever before in their work — whether fashioning genres anew or confronting injustice at home and abroad. Here are 10 memorable Latin music moments for 2021. Selena Gomez recorded her first Spanish-language album It's never been a secret that the Texas-born actor and pop star Selena Gomez was Mexican American ...
    by Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times Dec 16, 2021 6 minutes

    Many Latin artists emerged from the first throes of the pandemic taking bolder risks than ever before in their work — whether fashioning genres anew or confronting injustice at home and abroad.

    Here are 10 memorable Latin music moments for 2021.

    Selena Gomez recorded her first Spanish-language album

    It's never been a secret that the Texas-born actor and pop star Selena Gomez was Mexican American — but after many years of performing strictly in English, the 28-year-old embarked on a side quest this year by recording her first Spanish-language EP, "Revelación." Her decision to make a Latin pop record, she told The, came after years of experiencing a quiet shame over her diminishing fluency in Spanish. "Maybe embracing that part of me can be a source of healing for somebody else," she said, "and now I think I actually sound better in Spanish than I do in English." The EP earned Gomez her first Grammy nomination, for best Latin pop album.

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