Brenda Barrientos's Recent Articles

When it comes to the Latine experience, the entertainment industry has only ever operated in one way: to underrepresent us on-screen and behind the scenes,

by Brenda Barrientos

Somos Latine

Latina Artists Rarely Get Their Flowers. Billboard Women in Music...

In 2018, a Washington Post article pondered, “Is the Latin music industry finally ready to embrace women?” Five years later, a Billboard article stated

by Brenda Barrientos

Somos Latine

Jenna Ortega On Latines in Hollywood: “I Want To See Us Everywher...

If you watched the Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday, you might have spotted Jenna Ortega getting silly with her family — no, not amid the crowd at Allegiant St

by Brenda Barrientos

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Somos Latine

Celebrating Galentine’s Day? Here’s Somos’ Gift Ideas For L...

by Brenda Barrientos

Somos Latine

Grammy-Nominated Superstar Producer Tainy Isn’t Going Anywhere

“The past year has been crazy. At least, that’s one way to put it — it’s been special. I’ve waited years to put out my album, and it finally happ

by Brenda Barrientos

Somos Latine

My Girls’ Trip at the SLS Baha Mar in the Bahamas Was Unfor...

It’s a Thursday night before a long holiday weekend, and I’m scrambling to get my luggage ready for a three-day trip to the Bahamas. It’s my first ti

by Brenda Barrientos

Somos Latine

Inside Raizado, the Star-Studded Latine Festival in Aspen

At high altitudes, 7,908 feet above sea level to be exact, roughly 250 Latines gathered at Aspen Meadows Resort in Aspen, Colorado, in August for the secon

by Brenda Barrientos

Somos Latine

Ahead of His La Vida Es Una Tour, Myke Towers Preps for Hi...

If it were up to Myke Towers, he’d spend his summer like many of us: absorbing vitamin D on a sandy beach. But as much as the sunny outdoors might call t

by Brenda Barrientos

Somos Latine

Being a Child Translator In An Immigrant Home Is Emotionally Taxi...

“Look, Hayre, they called me at work to give me the instructions for the surgery,” a mother tells her teenage daughter. “I think they sent other inst

by Brenda Barrientos

Somos Latine

Peso Pluma’s Génesis Proves Why He’s the Poster Boy of Reg...

It’s a Wednesday afternoon, the day before Peso Pluma’s highly anticipated album Génesis drops, and the Mexican regional artist is as chill as can be.

by Brenda Barrientos

Somos Latine

Latinas, Taking Mental Health Medication Doesn’t Make You &...

During my junior year of high school, I began struggling with invasive, destructive thoughts. I was clinically depressed, and as a teenager, I had no idea

by Brenda Barrientos

Somos Latine

This is What Grammy Nominee Anitta Thinks About Being Called a &#...

The year 2022 was pivotal for Latines in the music industry — and especially for Brazilian artist Anitta. Last year, the Rio de Janeiro-born singer-songw

by Brenda Barrientos

Somos Latine

Jessie Reyez Finds Healing On YESSIE — & You Will, Too

Ten seconds into Jessie Reyez’s debut album, “Before Love Came to Kill Us,” she sings, “I should’ve fucked your friends. / It would’ve been the

by Brenda Barrientos

Somos Latine

Susana Baca Preserves Afro-Peruvian History Through Song

Before Susana Baca became a Latin American icon, she was a young girl in Chorrillos, Peru, a district in Lima, watching her mom command every room she ente

by Brenda Barrientos

Somos Latine

María Isabel Finds Her Strength in Soft Bilingual R&B

María Isabel has mastered the art of songwriting. You can hear it in her sophomore EP, i hope you’re very unhappy without me. Through the eight-track pr

by Brenda Barrientos

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Somos Latine

Bad Bunny Left His Mark On Music: Now He’s Giving Young People Th...

Global recording sensation Bad Bunny might be taking a pause on releasing new music (though the overachiever recently released a surprise collaboration wit

by Brenda Barrientos

Somos Latine

Renata Flores & Her Music Are An Act of Indigenous Resistance

“Indigenous peoples have been forgotten, under-appreciated, exploited — and our languages have a lot to do with it,” Peruvian Quechua singer

by Brenda Barrientos