NY1 Noticias
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Buika: Sad Songs Are “Weapons of Mass Construction”
During this interview with Spanish singer Buika, I asked her a question I had always wanted to make to an artist able to convey the pain her music sometimes brings: if she carried that feeling with her all the time, and if she had to experience those feelings before expressing them. That was the beginning…
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Patricia Engel
Patricia Engel’s Vida —a collection of stories linked by its character and narrator, Sabina— is an impressive literary debut. In this appearance in Contraportada (Engel’s first television interview), the author talked about developing a feminine voice and writing as a second generation immigrant. [Watch here]
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León Gieco: “I can’t expect to work for change and see it happen”
Legendary Argentinean singer-songwriter came to Contraportada to play a fragment of his classic “La colina de la vida,” and talk about his four decades of singing for justice, hope and change.
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Is Miami the capital of Latin America?
An interview with Argentinean writer Hernán Iglesias Illa, author of Miami.
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Moona Luna: Songs for Raising Bilingual Kids
To watch Sandra Velásquez, of Alt-Lat band Pistolera, talking about Moona Luna, her bilingual band for kids, click on the photo below. To listen to their music, click here.
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The Tectonic Plates of Hispanic New York
Columbia professor Claudio Iván Remeseira recently published Hispanic New York, an impressive anthology of academic papers that try to define what it means to be Latino in New York City (a place formed by the “tectonic plates” of different Latino communities), and the role the city has had for Hispanic culture everywhere. In this interview for…
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Jorge Ramos and the Promise of America
Univisión’s anchor and reporter Jorge Ramos came to Contraportada to talk about his book A Country for All (Tierra de todos). In this extended version of the interview, Ramos explains how he balances his role as activist for immigration reform with being a fair and neutral anchor; why he thinks that the Declaration of Independence contains…
José Manuel Simián 