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Artist Essentials
2/1/2011
The megahits are here, and "Livin La Vida Loca" is revealed as the clever rock-pop classic that it always was. But when you listen to songs like "She's All I Ever Had" and "La Copa de la Vida" (the lat …
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Genres & History
2/1/2011
Because the urban salsa explosion of the '70s took place in New York, many of its artists were directly influenced by the soul and R&B records of the time. From Tito Puente and Willie Col=n to Joe Bata …
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Artist Essentials
2/1/2011
With its propulsive beat and irresistible swing, the 2005 scorcher "Rakata" was Wisin & Yandel's first massive single - and a genre-defining reggaet=n anthem. "Quftame el Dolor" and "Abusadora" are fro …
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Artist Essentials
2/1/2011
You can gauge the length of George Michael's journey from candy-coated pinup boy to full musical maturity by backing both ends up against each other. It's hard to believe that the teen idol spinning ou …
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Artist Essentials
2/1/2011
George Michael has been many things, depending on the mood and the moment: British funkateer, jazzy saloon singer, pop icon, pure iconoclast. But whether he was cavorting with supermodels and playing o …
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Artist Essentials
2/1/2011
When you've got a rep for rhythm like Sly & Robbie, you spend your time deciding which musical legend not to work with next. After narrowing those decisions down, the deep-grooving duo dropped in on Br …
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Artist Essentials
2/1/2011
Calling Sly Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare a "rhythm section" is like calling William Shakespeare - no relation - a "scribbler." It doesn't even begin to encompass the ways in which these men have shaped …
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Other Mix
1/31/2011
Maybe other decades had better movies, but we're willing to bet that no other decade had better movie soundtracks - soundtracks that, in many cases, outlasted the films themselves. Former Stevie …
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Other Mix
1/31/2011
By 1980, the country music that had been percolating its way onto the Pop charts was thoroughly mainstream, thanks in no small part to John Travolta, who convinced us that riding a mechanical bu …
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