In the wake of the crossover mania that characterized the Latin music industry at the end of the 90s Ricky Martin Shakira Paulina Rubio Thala -- all of whom released English-language albums around this time came Juanes a Latin artist so great he didn…

There may be little that is musically authentic about RBD a prefabricated poprock act that was initiated on television yet the group of Mexican teens achieved astounding commercial success quickly becoming a multilingual pop culture juggernaut whose …

An exceptionally well-regarded Spanish poprock band La Oreja de Van Gogh are also one of the most commercially successful with each of their albums selling around a million copies worldwide Driven by electric guitar and keyboard their music is easily…

The Latin techno-pop group Moenia comprised vocalist Juan Carlos Lozano keyboardist Jorge Soto and keyboardistprogrammer Alexander Midi Ortega The Mexican trios self-titled debut LP appeared on Universal Latin in 1997 a collection of remixes followed…

The youthful female vocalist known as Fey has sold over a million records in her native Mexico and many indeed throughout the worldwide Latin community most of them produced by Jos Ramn Florez Feys self-titled debut was released in America in 1995 fo…

One of the most gifted and accomplished -- and certainly one of the most respected -- artists in the Latin music sphere during the late 90s and into the next century Julieta Venegas enjoyed enormous acclaim during her run and though commercial succes…

In 1995 Jaguares was formed out of the skeleton of Califanes a Mexico City rock group The name change was due to a dream had by lead singer Saul Hernandez who dreamt that he was playing inside a Jaguars mouth Shortly after the name change Jaguares to…

Italian Euro-pop vocalist Nek b Filippo Neviani began playing guitar and drums at the age of nine and studied music for several years in the early 80s By the later half of the decade he had begun singing professionally and two of his early singles Wi…

Formerly known as La Onda Vaselina teen pop sensation OV7 debuted with CD00 released by Sony Discos Starting as a childrens act in the late 80s and becoming a major number on the Latin pop scene during the 90s the Mexican seven-piece vocal group welc…

In 1987 ex-Aparato Raro member Rodrigo Aboitiz ex-Paraiso Perdido member Andrs Bobe and ex-Nadie member Shia Arbulu formed a techno-pop ensemble called la Ley After issuing an EP Aboitiz and Arbulu left the band to get involved in different projects …

Child talent gone recording artist Belinda Peregrin Schull was born in Madrid in 1989 of mixed Spanish and French heritage relocating with her family four years later to Mexico City where she lives today Showing a talent for singing and performing fr…

By 2004 roughly a decade after she made her recording debut at the age of 18 Laura Pausini had sold over 25 million albums worldwide quite an impressive feat for someone whod never really broken into the lucrative English-language market The Italian …

Mexican Aleks Syntek was born in Mrida in September 29 of 1969 This talented musician has been involved in many different projects such as advertisement TV shows and movies By the late 80s Syntek along with two friends decided to form an alternative …