Latin Music USA on PBS

Season 1, Episode 4
Latin pop explodes with Ricky Martin, Shakira, and Gloria Estefan as Latino youth gravitate toward the urban fusions of reggaetón artists like Daddy Yankee and rapper Pitbull. Rock en español star Juanes becomes a global phenomenon.

Season 1, Episode 3
From Ritchie Valens and Freddy Fender to Linda Ronstadt, Los Lobos, and Selena, a new generation of Mexican Americans raised on rock, rhythm and blues, and country music expresses their cultural identity through Chicano rock, Latin rock, and Tejano.

Season 1, Episode 2
Puerto Ricans and other Latinos in New York reinvent Cuban and Puerto Rican rhythms, adding elements from soul and jazz to create salsa. Follow the rise and fall of legendary Fania Records with famed artists Willie Colón, Héctor Lavoe, and Rubén Blades.

Season 1, Episode 1
See the rise of Latin jazz with the great Machito and the explosion of the mambo with Pérez Prado. Latin music infiltrates R&B and rock throughout the 1960s, from the Drifters to Santana and beyond.