Judy Cantor-Navas

Silvio Rodríguez’s sold out June 4, 2010 concert at Carnegie Hall was a watershed moment.

When the artist Joan Miró died in 1989, at the age of 90, he left behind an extensive and eclectic record collection as well as his famous body of work. As this playlist attests, his taste knew no borders, and his obsessions ranged from jazz and flamenco to the most cutting electronic edge sounds. The music he embraced was both spiritual and experimental, and always inspirational. Click through to read more, and listen to the playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/56QmLYSR0ubmZStzvzvjzd?si=a91a8339022b4aef

For No Depression magazine, I traveled to Els Prats de Rei, a medieval town of 500 people with one bar and a community pool an hour from Barcelona, where Snarky Puppy's Michael League and other international musicians have made a home in what were neglected but amazing stone-walled houses.

The telenovela that is Spain's authors and publishers rights society SGAE.

Nat King Cole made his debut under the stars on the Tropicana’s outdoor stage in March of 1956 with a setlist of satiny American hits that were just as popular in Havana. Cole performed with Armando Romeu Jr.’s orchestra, the famed nightclub’s house band, which would later record the tracks for the King’s first album of swinging romantic Latin ballads in Spanish: Cole Español. I had a swinging time myself revisiting one of my favorite albums for Udiscover Music.

This story of the revival of a vintage indie Latin record label, and a music supervisor who loved the music and ended up buying the label herself, was close to my heart. Readers who don't speak spanish can listen to the playlist at the end of the article, which tells a story itself.

On his new album, the Puerto Rican percussionist embraces the music of bolero singer Charlie Figueroa, the father he never knew.

I was inspired by the Oscar-nominated movie "Argentina 1985" to take a look back at Charly Garcia's early songs.

The 100th birthday of the infinitely inventive Cuban double bassist and mambo pioneer fell on the Eve of Hispanic Heritage Month. Here is my tribute in Billboard.

Los cubano-americanos en Miami se encontraron cara a cara con los cubanos de Cuba, viéndose los unos a los otros como en un espejo de feria distorsionado. La música fue un grito de guerra en las batallas culturales. Pero también hubo conciertos estáticos donde tocaron músicos de la isla. Para algunos de nosotros, presentes en el público, esas noches fueron celebraciones de una música nueva e increible. Para otros fueron, de alguna manera, como regresar a casa.

Para muchos de ellos, conseguir esa música fue como encontrar un mensaje en una botella, destapando una Cuba real.

My feature in American Airlines’ American Way magazine profiled the amazing, articulate people behind the food and drink revolution in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. At a time when it's easy to feel helpless about things happening around us, their ability to take action, doing what they love while having such a positive impact on their environment, is so inspiring and important.

Records tell stories in the words of Bobby Marin, pioneering producer and composer of boogaloo and Latin soul, and today the owner of the Mambo Music label.

*The English-language version of my story on Bobby for GladysPalmera.com

One of my most memorable reporting trips was my stay at Goldeneye, the house in Jamaica where Ian Fleming wrote James Bond, which passed into the hands of Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, who turned it into an idyllic and exclusive hotel for rock stars and people who wanted to feel like them. I wrote about it for Travel & Leisure en Español.

Las contradicciones de un artista conocido por su coraje creativo.

Antonio Banderas plays Zach, the tough-talking Broadway director who reveals pieces of his tender heart in a new revival of A Chorus Line performed entirely in Spanish. The production opened the actor’s new theater, the Teatro del Soho CaixaBank, a project that Banderas could well describe using the title of another Chorus Line classic, “What I Did For Love."