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Although some celebrities shy away from the topic of their famous parents, that's never been the case for Mau y Ricky. The Venezuelan singer-songwriters are the sons of Latine pop icon Ricardo Montaner. However, the talent in the Montaner family doesn't end with Mau, Ricky, and Ricardo. Mau and Ricky's sister, Evaluna Montaner, and their brother-in-law, Camilo, are also impacting the industry. If you listen closely, the elder Evaluna and Camilo's voices can be heard on Mau y Ricky's new album "Hotel Caracas," which also marked the brothers' return to Venezuela for the first time in over a decade. Family and community are core tenets for the duo.

"There's no hiding the obvious," Ricky Montaner says of his famous family. "I'm proud as a family that we've been able to lift each other up, inspire each other, and connect with people in this way. It's beautiful and special."

Growing up in Caracas,...

Craving intimacy after a difficult breakup is one of the worst feelings.

On Friday, Nicole Zignago released her single “Mimos” alongside Camilo, and premiered its gorgeous video, directed by Camilo’s wife Eva Luna Montaner, with Rolling Stone. The track hears the two stars singing about the often toxic back-and-forth following a difficult romantic split.

“For the video’s concept, I gave free rein to Eva Luna so she could experiment,” Zigango tells Rolling Stone. “I admire her very much as a person, as a mother, as a friend, as a director.

Fatherhood has completely transformed Camilo's life. Last September, the Colombian Grammy-winning singer released his third studio album, "De Adentro Pa' Afuera," shortly after his wife, singer-songwriter Evaluna Montaner, gave birth to their daughter Indigo.

"When I released 'De Adentro Pa' Afuera,' my third album, it was really an exploration of a lot of things that were happening inside of me and that I really wanted to share with people," Camilo tells Popsugar. "Because I mean, ideas are only real and valuable in terms of how can you impact other people's lives, right?"

When Camilo hit the road for his De Adentro Pa' Afuera tour last May with his team, his wife, and his baby girl, who was just 40 days old, he knew he was in for the experience of his life. But what he didn't expect was that his free street concert in Spain in October of 2022 would...

Exclusive: Ensemble Studio Theatre, one of New York’s premiere Off Broadway venues perhaps best known for its annual Marathon of One-Act Plays, announced today that Estefanía Fadul and Graeme Gillis have been appointed the new Co-Artistic Directors of the 55-year-old theater company.

Gillis, who has been serving as Interim Artistic Director since William Carden retired in 2022 and is a long-time member of Est, will begin planning the 2023/2024 season with director/producer Fadul who will officially join the company in March.

Over the past five decades, Est has developed thousands of new American plays and has grown into a company of over 600 actors, directors, playwrights, and designers. Est was founded and led by Curt Dempster beginning in 1968; he was succeeded as Artistic Director by William Carden in 2007. Fadul and Gillis mark the first co-leadership structure for the company.

Est’s current season kicked off in the fall with the 38th...

Camila Cabello and Camilo are two loving free spirits in a dreamscape in the new music video for their collaboration, “Ambulancia.”

The video, released Tuesday, follows the two Latin stars posing in front of a campy green screen as they sing about their love. “I had turned off my heart/But when I saw you, it was put on fire on its own,” sings Cabello. “The fire won’t turn off/Even if the desert turns into the sea.”

The music video — directed by Camilo’s wife, Evaluna Montaner — features...

The Latin Recording Academy shared its list of nominees for the 2022 Latin Grammys on Sept. 20. Bad Bunny swept the nominations, netting 10 nods overall. His chart-topping album "Un Verano Sin Ti" received nominations for album of the year and best urban music album. Rauw Alejandro, Christina Aguilera, and Rosalía also received a number of noms. On the evening on Nov. 17. Singer/songwriter Jorge Drexler took the most awards home, leading with six wins including record and song of the year for

"Tocarte" with C. Tangana, Best Pop Song for "La Guerrilla de la Concordia," Best Alternative Song for "El día que estrenaste el mundo," Best Singer/Songwriter album for "Tinta y Tiempo," and Best Portuguese Language Song (alongside Marisa Monte in "Vento Sardo"). Bad Bunny who wasn't present at the award show followed with five awards including Best Urban Album for "Un Verano Sin Ti," Best Urban Fusion Performance, and Best...

The 23rd annual Latin Grammys are in full swing and the award list is already full of surprises. Bad Bunny, who led this year nominations with 10 nods, has already snagged some big awards, while Christina Aguilera walked away with a major award in the pop category. The Best New Artist category also saw an unexpected tie between 95-year-old Angela Alvarez, who broke records as the oldest person nominated in the category, and Mexican singer-songwriter Silvana Estrada. See the full list of winners so far below:

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With his wife Evaluna Montaner, Camilo can be 100 percent himself. In a Rolling Stone exclusive clip of Audible’s Origins podcast, which launched today, the Colombian star opens up about the impact of finding love for the first time in his life.

“Meeting Evaluna was for me an encounter with that kind of love for the first time,” he says in the podcast clip. “And seeing love as a mirror… when I started beginning the journey of loving Evaluna and letting her love me.”

“I not only started to [see] a...

Exclusive: Latin Grammy winner and Grammy nominee Camilo is the latest music star to land a concert special and documentary at HBO. Camilo: El Primer Tour De Mi Vida will premiere Friday, November 18 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt on HBO Latino and HBO Max in the U.S. and Latin America.

The special will cover the Colombian-born artist with the trademark handlebar mustache as he embarks on his first world tour — the “Mis Manos” tour — which was originally delayed due to the Covid pandemic. The tour kicks off in Spain and will feature appearances by Fito y Los Fitipaldis, Dani Martín, Mau y Ricky, Pablo Alborán and Nicky Nicole. It will also reveal behind-the-scenes moments about bringing hits like “Tutu,” “Mareado,” “Por Primera Vez,” “Bebé,” “Ropa Cara,” “Tattoo,” and “Kesi” to his global fanbase known affectionately as La Tribu.

Additionally, he and his wife and fellow artist Evaluna Montaner will...

The 2022 Latin Grammy nominations were announced on September 20, with the awards going out November 17. So who will win Latin music’s top songwriting award, Song of the Year?

SEE2022 Latin Grammy predictions: Record of the Year is a battle between young stars and old favorites

Let’s go through the process of elimination here. Ricky Martin‘s “A Veces Bien y A Veces Mal,” Daddy Yankee‘s “Agua,” and Mon Laferte‘s “Algo Es Mejor” are probably here in part due to being alphabetically high on the ballot, and since none of them made much noise, they will likely not win. While Carla Morrison and Fonseca are both highly respected artists, their respective songs “Encontrarme” and “Besos En La Frente” also didn’t really make much of an impact. Those five are likely the filler nominees.

A few other nominees have a slight chance. “Hentai” by Rosalía might be too polarizing for most voters,...

Bad Bunny leads the 2022 Latin Grammy Award nominations with 10 bids including Album of the Year (“Un Verano Sin Ti“) and Record of the Year (“Ojitos Lindos”), but can he finally win top honors from the academy? Scroll down for the complete list of contenders in all categories.

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The Latin Recording Academy has been somewhat ambivalent about Bad Bunny, judging from his track record over the years. He has won four times, but only in urban genre categories. He lost his three previous Album of the Year bids (for “Yhlqmdlg” and “Oasis” in 2020 and “El Ultimo Tour Del Mundo” in 2021) and his previous Record of the Year nom (for “Vete” in 2020). However, Bad Bunny has emerged as the biggest crossover Latin star in the world. “Un Verano Sin Ti” has topped the all-genre, all-language Billboard 200 albums chart for 11 weeks, which is more than any album in six years.

Bad Bunny’s major year continues: The Puerto Rican artist received the most nominations for the 23rd Annual Latin Grammy Awards, which the Latin Recording Academy announced on Tuesday morning.

Bad Bunny secured nods in several major categories: His song with Bomba Estereo, “Ojitos Lindos,” is nominated for Record of the Year, and his latest album, Un Verano Sin Ti, is nominated for Album of the Year and Best Urban Music Album. He competes with himself in a few categories: “Titi Me Pregunto” and the Aventura collaboration “Volvi” are up for Best Urban Fusion Performance,...

De Adentro Pa Afuera, Camilo’s kaleidoscopic new album, caught him during a few different intersections in his life. Not only did the Colombian singer find new creativity as an artist, he had also recently become a father. And as his world tour makes its way across the U.S. this month, he’s realizing that he has his work cut out for himself.

“I’m excited to see how this family process starts growing and unfolding through all these challenges of being on tour, releasing an album, and being...

“Naturaleza,” the charming collaboration Camilo and Nicki Nicole, is all about celebrating your own quirks and eccentricities — and the video accompanying the song with is as fun and idiosyncratic as the track’s message. The two artists play with whimsical visuals that riff on surrealism and pop art, all while encouraging listeners to be their authentic selves.

The video, directed by Camilo’s wife Evaluna Montaner and filmed in Miami last May, matches unexpected scenes with the song’s mischievous production. In a release, Nicki Nicole said she and Camilo...

Nominations have arrived for the 2022 Premios Juventud, Univision’s awards show for Spanish-language pop culture, with J Balvin and Karol G leading the list at 11 nods each. The Colombian singers are followed by Rauw Alejandro, who holds nine, and Farruko, with eight.

Karol, Balvin, Rauw and Farruko overlap in three categories: favorite streaming artist, catchiest song, viral track of the year and the night’s biggest prize, album of the year. Also nominated for album of the year are Sebastian Yatra, Justin Quiles, Daddy Yankee, Rosalia, Camilo and Natti Natasha.

The show has added 10 new categories this year: female artist on the rise, male artist on the rise, my favorite actor, my favorite actress, best on-screen couple, favorite streaming artist, best couple song (which recognizes songs made by a romantic duo), tropical hit, the best beatmakers and best fandom.

In addition to the list of nominees, Univision has also announced bachata songster Prince Royce,...

The Colombian artist Camilo got the audience dancing with him during his quirky Latin Grammys performance, where he sang his recent hits “Vida De Rico” and “Kesi.” His performance was introduced by his pregnant wife Evaluna Montaner and his father-in-law Ricardo Montaner, who said he was happy to announce that he’ll be a “grandfather for a fifth time.”

Camilo, who is the most-nominated artist of the night, opened his set with the cumbia-infused “Vida De Rico,” singing inside a black-and-white room with the word “soñar,” or “dream,” behind him.

Colombian singer-songwriter Camilo dominated the announcement of the 2021 Latin Grammy Awards nominations, garnering 10, including nods in all three top categories — album of the year (for “Mis Manos”), record of the year (for “Vida de Rico” and “Amen”) and song of the year (for “Vida de Rico” and “Dios Así Lo Quiso”).

Also faring well with multiple nods were Dominican artist Juan Luis Guerra with six, Spanish rapper C. Tangana with five and Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny with four.

Most of these top-nominated artists have enjoyed multiple trips to the podium in previous years— especially Guerra, a 20-time Latin Grammy winner. C. Tangana and Bad Bunny have won twice before. But with his staggering 10 nominations this year, Camilo comes into the ceremony only ever having won once before, for last year’s best pop song (his acceptance appearance is pictured above).

The 22nd annual show airs on Univision Nov. 18 live at 8 p.

Ntertain, the recently launched multimedia company from Neion16’s Lex Borrero, music mogul Tommy Mottola and Range Media Partners, announced on Monday the start of the development and production for its first original series, “Los Montaner.”

The docuseries centers on the most viral and influential family in Latin music, Los Montaner. In addition to getting the world’s attention with chart topping music, The Montaner family have become household sensations through their social media audience of over 150 million and over eight billion video content views.

Borrero will executive produce the series, with Range Media Partners co-financing the project, handling global sales of the series. Production will shoot globally, as the crew follows the daily life of the Montaner family.

The series will feature:

Music icon & multiple Latin Grammy nominee & Lifetime Achievement Awardrecipient Ricardo Montaner Marlene Rodriguez, Ricardo’s wife, and filmmaker Award-winning recording artist and member of Mau y Ricky,...

Ntertain will give an inside look at one of the most influential families in Latin music with its new docuseries, “Los Montaner.”

The unscripted show will follow Ricardo Montaner and his family and is set to feature his wife, filmmaker Marlene Rodriguez; award-winning recording artists Ricky Montaner and Mau Montaner of Mau y Ricky; entertainer Stefi Roitman (Ricky’s fiance); creative director Sara Escobar (Mau’s wife); actress and singer Evaluna Montaner and singer Camilo Echeverry (Evaluna’s husband).

“This last year that passed, among other things, served as a way to spend more time together, more than ever and to partake in profound dialogue about all that is going on, with our careers, personally and everything really,” Ricardo said. “Within these conversations we discussed our thoughts on us wanting to possibly do a show together and in this form convey to the world what family unity means to us…...

Ntertain, the recently launched multimedia company from Neon16’s Lex Borrero, music mogul Tommy Mottola and Range Media Partners, has identified the first original series to go into production, Los Montaner. The unscripted docu-series will give an exclusive look inside Latin music’s influential family, the Montaners, who have social media audience of over 150 million and over eight billion video content views.

Borrero will executive produce the series, with Range Media Partners co-financing the project, handling global sales of the series. The series will film globally, as the crew follows the daily life of the Montaner family.

Featured on Los Montaner are:

Multiple Latin Grammy nominee & Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Ricardo Montaner Marlene Rodriguez, Ricardo’s wife, and filmmaker Award-winning recording artist and member of Mau y Ricky, Ricky Montaner Actress, model, and TV host, Stefi Roitman, fiance of Ricky Montaner Award-winning recording artist and member of Mau y Ricky,...

Exclusive: Grammy winner Marc Anthony and his Magnus Studios team are joining Sofia Vergara’s animated feature comedy, Koati.

The project’s soundtrack, executive produced by Latin music icon Anthony and produced by Grammy-winning producer and songwriter Julio Reyes Copello, will include 10 original songs by notable names in Latin music and will be released on the Magnus/Sony Music Latin labels and distributed by Sony Music Latin worldwide.

Produced by Upstairs Animation, Latin We Productions and Los Hijos de Jack, Koati follows three unlikely heroes — Nachi, a free-spirited coatí; Xochi, a fearless monarch butterfly; and Pako, a hyperactive glass frog — as they embark on an adventure to stop wicked coral snake Zaina (Vergara) from destroying their rainforest homeland and friends.

Produced simultaneously in English and Spanish, the voice cast includes Oscar nominee Adriana Barraza (Babel), Joe Manganiello (Justice League), Eduardo Franco (Stranger Things) and actors-musicians Evaluna Montaner (Club 57) and...

Six became a magic number for Camilo on Tuesday morning, when the Latin Recording Academy released its annual list of Latin Grammys nominees. For the first time ever, the Colombian singer-songwriter became a Latin Grammy-nominated artist, and in six categories: Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Song. He also has two songs nominated for Song of the Year: 2020’s “El Mismo Aire” and “Tutu” with Pedro Capo, which famously got a nod from Shakira.

“I was having breakfast and all of the sudden,...

Sneak Peek footage from director Anne Fletcher's upcoming action comedy feature "Hot Pursuit, starring Reese Witherspoon and Sofía Vergara, opening May 8, 2015:

"...an inept police officer (Witherspoon) must protect the widow of a drug dealer (Vergara) from criminals and dirty policemen..."

Cast also includes Robert Kazinsky, Sean Penn, Richard T. Jones.

David Oyelowo, Evaluna Montaner, Michael Mosley, Matthew Del Negro and John Carroll Lynch.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Hot Pursuit"...