INTERVIEWS

LOUIE PÉREZ – IN HIS OWN WORDS

Louie Pérez is a founding member, drummer and song writer of the legendary rock group Los Lobos. The group is one of the longest lasting successful collaborations in music history. They are … [Read more...]

FLACO JIMÉNEZ – IN HIS OWN WORDS

Flaco Jiménez is one of the most renowned accordion musicians in the world. H has performed with everyone from Willie Nelson and Ry Cooder to The Rolling Stones and Los Lobos. Latinopia asked him … [Read more...]

ROMO DE TEJAS – 01.12.20 – THE BIRTH OF BORDERLAND FOLKLORE

January 12, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

Born in 1915, Americo Paredes, rose to become the founder of Mexican American Folklore in America and creator of Mexican American Studies in Texas. In 1937, Paredes published his first poems in La Prensa of San Antonio. Paredes, a native of Brownsville, studied at the local community college and worked as a proofreader at the […]

FIERCE POLITICS with DR. ALVARO HUERTA – 01.12.20 BARRIO WISDOM

January 12, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

Nietzsche warned me about gazing too long into the abyss, but I didn’t listen. It gazed back into me. After spending my early years with extended family in Tijuana (Baja California) and Hollywood (Alta California), I spent my formative years with my immediate family in East Los Angeles’ notorious Ramona Gardens public housing project—better known […]

ROMO DE TEJAS ON “CÉSAR MARTÍNEZ”

December 23, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

César Martínez. César Martínez grew up in Laredo, Texas and attended Texas A&M University at Kingsville. While at the Kingsville campus he formed friendships with several Latino artists who like himself, expressed in their paintings and drawings their own South Texas experience. Together these South Texas artists constituted the early creative developers of the Texas […]

MARK GUERRERO’S CHICANO MUSIC CHRONICLES – LALO GUERRERO

December 28, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

This week, composer, musician, singer and archivist Mark Guerrero goes to the roots and reviews the life and music of his father, the granddaddy of Chicano music, the legendary Lalo Guerrero. This show was recorded after Lalo’s passing but it captures the vitality, creativity and presence of this phenomenal music legend whose music goes back […]

LATINOPIA MUSIC QUETZAL “CANTO LISO”

By Tia Tenopia on October 27, 2013

Quetzal is an East Los Angeles band whose music mirrors the social, political and cultural struggles of Latinos in the United States and Latin America. On August 24, 2013 they performed their song “Canto Liso,” based on a poem by acclaimed Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén, at the Levitt Pavilion nin Pasadena, California.

Category: LATINOPIA MUSIC, Music

LATINOPIA MUSIC LOS FABULOCOS “UNA PURA Y DOS CON SAL”

By Tia Tenopia on January 4, 2015

Delta Groove Music recording artist Los FabuLocos is a Southern California band whose unique sound, “Cali-Mex,”is a fusion of blues, Americana and Chicano soul music. Band members include Jesús Cuevas, accordion and vocals; Rubén Guaderama, guitar,bajo sexto, tres and vocals; James Barrios, bass and vocals; Mike Molina, drums and Kid Ramos, guitar( not in this […]

Category: LATINOPIA MUSIC, Music

LATINOPIA WORD THELMA REYNA

By Tia Tenopia on October 20, 2013

Thelma Reyna is the author of the award-winning “The Heavens Weep For Us and Other Stories” and the poetry collections “Breath & Bone” and “Hearts In Common.” Latinopia caught up with Thelma on October 17, 2013 when she read her poems at the public library in Altadena, California.

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature