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2017/08/31 at 6:53pm

PODCAST: A Breakdown of John Leguizamo’s Billboard Article and What It Means For All Latinos

08.31.2017 | By Jack Rico |

Colombian Actor John Leguizamo has had enough of how Hollywood treats Latinos. This week he wrote an article on Billboard.com, “From Music to Movies to TV, Latinos Are Widely Underrepresented – And I’m Done With It” and he essentially calls out executives for being ignorant and blind, he calls out Latinos for being silent and not doing anything to improve the situation and he calls out mainstream media for mostly dismissing our culture altogether. Is he right?

Our good friend Kelvin Chavez, founder of LatinoReview.com and EIC of SplashReport.com weighs in on the Highly Relevant podcast with Jack Rico on what Leguizamo got right and wrong about Latinos in Hollywood. Have a listen below. Read More

By Jack Rico

2017/08/25 at 7:46pm

Podcast

Podcast: A Conversation With Carlos Santana And Dolores Huerta

08.25.2017 | By Jack Rico |

On this week’s Highly Relevant podcast, we talk to Latina icon Dolores Huerta and music legend, Carlos Santana. They spoke to me about their new documentary DOLORES, which focuses on the impact Huerta and Cesar Chavez had on the life of millions of Latino immigrants in the 1960s in this country. Read More

By Jack Rico

2017/08/09 at 9:02am

Latino Podcast

PODCAST: April Reign on Boycotting HBO’s ‘Confederate,’ How Will Venezuela’s Problems Affect US Latinos?

08.9.2017 | By Jack Rico |

On the podcast this week, we talk MTV’s TRL reboot and how they need to seize the Latino music opportunity to be successful, plus, we discuss HBO and it’s controversial new slave series ‘Confederate’ with the creator of the #OscarSoWhite April Reign. She and four women have now created the #NoConfederate campaign to boycott the show. Will HBO succumb to social media pressure? Read More

By Jack Rico

2017/07/29 at 6:47pm

Podcast

Romeo Santos ‘GOLDEN’ Album Review

07.29.2017 | By Jack Rico |

*This is a US Latino podcast for anyone who enjoys American and Latino pop culture.

In episode 42 of the Highly Relevant Podcast with Jack Rico, we discuss J Balvin’s ‘Mi Gente’. Many people are already calling it the next ‘Despacito’ phenomenon for its potential to become #1 on the HOT 100. So… can it make it to #1?

We also review Romeo Santos‘ new album ‘Golden’ with Isabela Raygoza, Rolling Stone Magazine’s Latina music critic, who also discusses with us her Q&A with Romeo and whether he can make Bachata mainstream in America.

And, how is the Prince Royce tour going? I speak with singer and good friend, Cathia, who is currently touring with him as his backup singer, on an impromptu phone call where she tells me the inside details of the sexy solos she performs with Royce every night, how she got the gig and how she felt to sing in her front of her hometown NY at MSG. Read More

By Jack Rico

2017/06/12 at 10:50am

Latino Podcast

Will White Audiences See Pixar’s Coco?

06.12.2017 | By Jack Rico |

In episode 35 this week of Highly Relevant, we focus on Pixar’s Coco with Latino film critic Kellvin Chavez of Splashreport.com. I also chatted with Mike Sargent, Chief Film Critic of WBAI Radio who also contributes film reviews nationally on the FOX Business Network with Maria Bartiromo, about Tom Cruise’s The Mummy reboot and what went wrong and what it means for Universal Pictures Dark Universe. Read More

Juanes

By Jack Rico

2017/05/20 at 3:35pm

Music Podcast

Juanes Talks New Visual Album, Shakira, and Reggaeton

05.20.2017 | By Jack Rico |

Welcome to the Highly Relevant podcast. Juanes has a new visual album. We talk to the Colombian superstar about why he has never collaborated with his Shakira, why he won’t sing Reggaeton, and why it’s not in him to do an English-language crossover. Read More

Why Justin Bieber’s ‘Despacito’ Remix Is A Cultural Failure

By Jack Rico

2017/04/21 at 4:02pm

Podcast

Why Justin Bieber’s ‘Despacito’ Remix Is A Cultural Failure

04.21.2017 | By Jack Rico |

This might actually be the best show I’ve done. In this episode, I break down why Justin Bieber’s ‘Despacito’ remix is a cultural failure. I talk with well-known radio DJ and performer Diamond Boy Luis. We didn’t like it and we explained why. Also, Ulises Bella from the popular LA band Ozomatli joins us to talk about their NYC concert in Brooklyn, the electricity of their live performances, plus their collaboration with Juanes and Gaby Moreno on their new album “NONSTOP-LA→MEXICO→KINGSTON”. And then to cap it off, we welcome Latin music’s most respected voice, Billboard’s Leila Cobo to discuss her exclusive interview with J Balvin and Nicky Jam on this week’s Latin Billboard Magazine. Read More

By Jack Rico

2017/03/18 at 9:36am

Latino Podcast

Podcast: Betting On Zero and Herbalife’s Latino Exploitation

03.18.2017 | By Jack Rico |

This week on Highly Relevant, which you can now subscribe to now, we discuss the important new documentary called “Betting On Zero” which hits theaters soon. It centers on the alleged pyramid scheming of the nutrition company Herbalife. It also chronicles in detail how Latinos have been exploited by Herbalife as well. Ted Braun, the director of the film, and Latina activist Julie Contreras also a part of the film, join me to discuss the film’s central premise and the financial ramifications Herbalife’s sketchy business dealings have had on the Hispanic community. Read More

Mexican Director Catalina Aguilar Mastretta Discusses Creating Bilingual Films

By Jack Rico

2017/02/28 at 11:09pm

Latino Podcast Spanish language

Mexican Director Catalina Aguilar Mastretta Discusses Creating Bilingual Films

02.28.2017 | By Jack Rico |

In this episode of the Highly Relevant podcast, we interview the female director of the hit bilingual film ‘Everybody Loves Somebody,’ Catalina Aguilar Mastretta, about creating bilingual and bicultural cinema for a new generation of US Hispanics. Also, the Oscars are this Sunday and who better to talk to about the state of multiculturalism at the Academy Awards than April Reign, the creator of the #OscarsSoWhite movement, plus, my review of Jordan Peele’s black horror film “Get Out”. Read More

Episode 19 – Ice Cube on Hit Movies, Jesse y Joy on Bilingual Music, Carrie Keagan on Cursing with Celebrities

By Jack Rico

2017/02/20 at 3:22pm

Latino Podcast

Episode 19 – Ice Cube on Hit Movies, Jesse y Joy on Bilingual Music, Carrie Keagan on Cursing with Celebrities

02.20.2017 | By Jack Rico |

Welcome to episode 19 of the “Highly Relevant” podcast! Our friend Carrie Keagan (26:00), host of Bravo After Hours, stops by the podcast to promote her new book “Everybody Curses I Swear,” Ice Cube (1:20) joins me to discuss his new high school movie “Fist Fight”. We also talk a bit about the American educational system, why raunch comedies aren’t offensive to people anymore and his secret to making hit movies. And if you like Latin pop music, you probably have heard of the Mexican brother/sister duo – Jesse y Joy (8:14). They have a new self-titled bilingual album and we chatted at length about bilingualism in music and in this country. It’s a great show, so put your headphones on or if you’re listening in your car, crank it up. Read More