For the past week, the number one song in the world has been a plena. On January 11, the title track of Bad Bunny's newest album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos, took over the number one spot on Apple Music. It ...

Plena is the Puerto Rican music genre that has received the most international exposure thanks to local pop artists like Ricky Martin and Yolandita Monge, or urban artists like Bad Bunny. One reason ...

In Santurce, a poor suburb outside San Juan, Puerto Rico, there’s a bus that doesn’t run anymore, but the stops it once madeparadasstill lend their names to the densely populated neighborhoods. Ask ...

Although transnational, contemporary, and based on the Cuban son, salsa is often assumed to be Puerto Rico’s national song. Enter Plena Libre, purveyors of Puerto Rican pride and promoters of plena, a ...

In the Latin music scene, there's always an innate pairing of the musical styles bomba and plena as one genre, but the two Afro-Puerto Rican genres are quite distinct. In this, the 27th segment of ...

Michael Eckroth had clear goals in mind for this project—"to create music that was lyrical, modern, true to its Afro-Latin roots, but never purist in its approach"—and he's accomplished his mission ...

Miguel Zenon, a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for music composition, spent the better part of last year studying plena, a folkloric music of his native Puerto Rico. He mixes it with modern ...

Plena, a crypto super app using account abstraction since a year before Vitalik Buterin’s white paper, has become the latest participant of the Cointelegraph Accelerator. In traditional finance, ...