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'Pequeño Poesias' Y Más: This Week In Latin Music

This week's Alt.Latino playlist stretches the boundaries of the conventional. These genre-bending tracks celebrate female prowess, camaraderie and an artist's destiny.
Frank Garcia's latest track "Pequeño Poesias" is in this week's <em>Alt.Latino</em> playlist.

This week's Alt.Latino playlist is packed with percussive tracks, including rustic takes on reggaeton, classical flute juxtaposed with trap beats and romantic jingles livened with spoken word.

At the bottom of this page is the playlist, as part of a series of NPR Music's favorite Latin songs, updated weekly on. Listen and read through our weekly hot takes here.

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