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She can croon like a classically trained vocalist and she can spit nasty, airtight lyrics without taking a breath. Azealia Banks has arrived and the fiery 19-year-old is turning heads with her risqué...
It was the best kind of accident. When she was eleven years old, Jasmine Villegas (who goes by Jasmine V.) was walking her little brother to a music video shoot and singing verses to help him prep....
As a child, rapper Yelawolf spent much of his time shuttling between 15 different elementary schools. It was on one of those sojourns that the 31-year-old first connected with rap: "When I lived in...
When Toto Gonzalez (otherwise known as Mr. Pauer) was a kid growing up in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, his musical worlds seemed totally disconnected: "My mom listened to boleros, my dad to traditional...
Refusing to accept the limits of the corrido style, Jorge Santa Cruz and his Grupo Quinto Elemento Santacruz are among a growing crop of new musicians who are playing “corridos visionarios." Santa...
It wasn't supposed be this way. When the trio of teens from Monterrey known as the Colectivo 3Ball Monterrey first started remixing dance classics under the guidance of mentor and eventual manager...
He's straight out of Compton, but Tyga won't be carrying the torch for West Coast gangsta rap any time soon. At 22 years old, Tyga could be the next full-fledged star from the New Orleans-based Young...
Cuban-American model/singer Nayer Regalado got her start early, modeling as a kid and then moving to Los Angeles at 14 to record her first demo. In 2011, Nayer was featured on Enrique Iglesias'...