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Article: Del editor...(música latina en 1998)(TT: From the Editor . . .)(TA: latin music in 1998)
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- Latin Beat Magazine
- Article date:
- December 1, 1998
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What a year for Latin music! We survived the madness of the previous 365 days (1997) --a period in time-- in reference to Latin music, in which we witnessed the effects of several phenomena associated with the business of the business, such as the vanishing of Latin jazz artists from some of the mayor labels; the less-than-average output of the tropical dance genre; and the poor promotion of the waiting-to-exhale rock en Español market.
This year (1998), many of these problems as weil as others not mentioned, were at least recognized and dealt with to an extent. The hard-core Latin jazzistas carne back with a vengeance as independent producers or on small indie ...