In-depth Interviews

Acosting Fame

Carlos Acosta, arguably the best ballet dancer of his generation and London’s most famous Latino, looks back on his thirteen years in London, during which he went from the Royal Ballet's principle dancer to global ballet…

Music

Ibero-African Tragi-harmony

Paco Peña, arguably the best-known flamenco guitarist and composer outside Spain, talks about the musical harmony and human tragedy of Africa’s relationship with Spain. In his upcoming dance show at Sadler's Well's…

Music

The Demographics of Music

With a name like Che Sudaka, you can't help but be curious. We talk to the band of Latino immigrants in Spain creating a stir in Europe

Music

"I wouldn’t mind dying if there were guitars in heaven"

Tiago Pereira talks about his latest documentary on Portuguese regional music: Chamarita - the country rock of the Azores.

Arts and Culture

Spain's Sweet Revenge

Four hundred years after Henry VIII divorced and disgraced Spain's beloved Katherine of Aragon, Spain has the chance to seek sweet revenge on the old rascal by bringing its interpretation of Shakespeare's Henry VIII to…

Arts and Culture

Che, Enrique IV, qué hacé!

Shakespeare in Argentine? Really? Just the thought of the mischievous Argentine psyche giving a twist to theatre’s most famous human commentator, is enough to make one smile. We talk to theatre director Rubén Szuchmacher, who…

Arts and Culture

Interview with Patricio Guzmán

Award-winning filmmaker Patricio Guzmán, one of Latin America’s most important directors of the 20th and 21st centuries, talks to Latino Life about his new film, Nostalgia for the Light, and about his approach to and opinions of…

Music

Rule Colombian Britannia!

This year the BBC Proms pays tribute to a new British-Colombian generation by featuring the London born and bred accordionist Jose Hernando who won the BBC Radio 3 World Routes Academy at only 19. Here the burgeoning star talks…

Music

TEGO CALDERON: Beyond the Genre

In the history of Latin Music there have been a lot of big stars. Yet we can still count on both hands the artists that have gone beyond the genre they were famous for to become true artists, representatives of a time and an era…

Music

Going Back to Move Forward

If anyone knows the secret to moving ahead by looking back it is Juan de Marcos, the man behind the original Buena Vista Social Club Album and all that followed. He talks to Latinolife with frankness about Music, Cuban Identity,…

Music

The Good Vibe

Not only did he showcase Bossa Nova to the world, Sergio Mendes personifies how you don’t have to be a shark to succeed in the global music business. The Brazilian music legend reminisces with Amaranta Wright on an amazing music…

Music

The Talent

An encounter with superstar Puerto Rican rapper Voltio in a London hotel.

Music

'The Marvellous Jew' - an interview with Fania legend Larry Harlow

Known affectionately as ‘the marvellous jew’ Larry Harlow was such a talent that the great Latino stars of Fania more than embraced him as one their own; they revered his musical leadership and vision. Jose Luis Seijas talks to…

Arts and Culture

Interview with Patricio Guzmán

Music

“Who would I invite on stage in London?...probably Jessie J!”

Juanes, the world’s most successful all-Spanish artist, talks to Latinolife exclusively about music, idols and ideals.

Music

Gilberto Gil: “I’ve always felt I was in the best place I could be”

Thirty years after first seeing him in concert at the age of eight, Amaranta Wright comes face to face with the Brazilian music legend Gilberto Gil on his recent visit to London, and gets an insight into the man that inspired her…