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- "Bonito" - Spanish rockeros Jarabe de Palo are a fixture on Spain's pop music scene.
- "Chan Chan" - Best known from his work with the Buena Vista Social Club, the late Compay Segundo was half of the duo Los Compadres, one of the most famous Cuban bands of all time.
- "Chillin" - Two titans of Puerto Rican reggaeton team up on this reggae-fied video, shot in Jamaica.
- "Corazon Loko" - Spanish group Ketama helped pioneer the flamenco rock sound born in Madrid in the 1980s.
- "Cuchi-Cuchi" - Venezuela's Los Amigos Invisibles put the fun back in funk with their irresistible blend of Latin disco and danceable rock.
- "Flor De Amor" - Cuban songstress Omara Portuondo is best known for her work with the Buena Vista Social Club, but has a long solo career that reaches all the way back to the heyday of The Tropicana in 1950s Havana.
- "Habana" - Orishas are a Cuban hip-hop group who emerged in the late 1990s to give Cuban youth a new musical voice. They are currently based in Paris.
- "La Camisa Negra" - Latin rocker Juanes is one of Colombia's biggest pop stars, and 2004's "La Camisa Negra" was one of his biggest international hits so far.
- "La Flaca (Remix)" - Spanish rockeros Jarabe de Palo are a fixture on Spain's pop music scene.
- "La Llave de Mi Corazon" - Dominican singer Juan Luis Guerra helped revive his island's homegrown bachata music, turning it into a staple of Latin pop radio with his classic Bachata Rosa album in 1999.
- "La Vida Es Un Carnaval" - Cuban singer Issac Delgado is one of the leaders of the island's timba music and a founding member of the legendary timba band NG la Banda.
- "Maria en La Playa" - Best known from his work with the Buena Vista Social Club, the late Compay Segundo was half of the duo Los Compadres, one of the most famous Cuban bands of all time.
- "Me Voy" - Grammy-winning Mexican singer Julieta Venegas grew up in Tijuana but made her name on Mexico City's indie rock scene in the 1990s.
- "Piedras vs. Tanques" - Spanish group Ojos de Brujo combines flamenco and Catalan rumba with hip-hop into a sound they call "flamenkillo." This song was taken from their 2006 album Techari.
- "Que Se Acabe El Leperepe" - Cuban ensemble Septeto Habanero can trace their founding back to 1920, and their traditional sones, rumbas, and boleros hark back to the golden age of Cuban music.
- "Quizas Quizas Quizas" - Two of the stars of Cuba's legendary Buena Vista Social Club take on a classic bolero in this 2005 video.
- "Revolucion" - French singer Sergent Garcia combines Jamaican reggae with Cuban sounds on this homage to The Clash.
- "Si Sabes Bailar Mi Son" - Best known from his work with the Buena Vista Social Club, Eliades Ochoa is a legendary Cuban guitarist who has played with the Cuarteto Patria ensemble since 1978.
- "Sonido Total" - Based in Barcelona, Spain, this pop duo of Mister Furia and Professor Manso make Day-Glo Catalan pop inflected with indie rock minimalism.
- "Tijuana Bass" - Nortec Collective is a loose group of DJs and producers from Tijuana, Mexico, who combine norteño and techno music. Their unique fusion captured the world's attention with their 2001 debut.
- "Un Beso" - Based in the Bronx, Aventura is one of the most successful young Dominican bachata groups of the last decade. This 2005 ballad is one of their biggest hits.
- "Ya No Hace Falta" - Bamboleo is a Cuban dance band known for their hard-hitting timba music—a style that's a homegrown Cuban answer to New York salsa. "Ya No Hace Falta" is the title track of the group's now classic 1991 album.
- Happy Everywhere - Barcelona electropop duo the Pinker Tones return with this stylized video from their 2008 sophomore release, Wild Animals.
- Manu Chao—"Politik Kills" - The godfather of Latin alternative, Manu Chao, revisits Africa with this powerful mediation on politics and war, shot on location in Monrovia Liberia.
- Tijuana Sound Machine - The Mexican electronica outfit Nortec Collective put DJs Bostitch and Fussible out front in this campy '80s retro send up.
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