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...tongues are coming untied. Wyclef Jean's platinum hip-hop CDs, The Carnival and The Ecleftic, mixed English and Haitian Creole. Christina Aguilera, who launched her career singing English-language teen pop, recorded a CD entirely in Spanish last year. Increasingly, world-beaters are collaborating and connecting with one another. Colombian rocker Shakira's new CD was executive- produced by Cuban-American Emilio Estefan Jr. and draws from Argentine tango...
...skips down stairs leading to the basement of his 10,000-sq.-ft. colonial manor in Brookville on New York's Long Island. Half the basement is being turned into a bar. The other half bristles with expensive, high-tech equipment and is littered with CDs, papers and recent photographs of friends and family taken by his wife, Dayanara Torres, 26, with her new digital camera. For the past three weeks, Anthony has spent entire evenings down here, smoking more Newports than usual, as he gets closer to completing his album. He digs through a pile of CDs. "This album...
...explosion--are prohibitively high. So only a few raperos have had the privilege of actually making a CD. Cuban rap thus evolved first as a live art form. "Hip-hop is not a good business here yet," admits Fernandez. "Very few people can afford to buy the CDs, and most of the clubs can only charge a $1 cover, which doesn't yield enough to pay a rapper and stay in business long." The rappers of Grandes Ligas make ends meet by living at home with their parents...
Still, Brazilians love their homegrown musicians. They resist the onslaught of American acts, the Britney Spears and the 'N Syncs, the Stainds and the Limp Bizkits. Some 70% of CDs sold in Brazil are by Brazilian artists--a higher percentage of local music than is sold in France, Italy, Britain or any other European country...
...other acts on De Castro's Trama label are second-generation stars. Berklee College of Music graduate Jairzinho Oliveira and smooth-voiced singer Luciana Mello are children of Jair Rodrigues, an acclaimed samba vocalist. Bebel Gilberto (daughter of Joao) and Moreno Veloso (son of Caetano) have released widely acclaimed CDs on other labels. Daniel Jobim, grandson of Tom, appeared on Moreno's CD. While pop-music progeny sometimes face ridicule and suspicion in the U.S., they are often embraced in Brazil. Jakob Dylan would do well to brush up on his Portuguese...