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Spanish-speaking Bad Bunny stirs lost Latin identity among Brazil’s music fans
Music•February 20, 2026 at 8:00 AMNational

Spanish-speaking Bad Bunny stirs lost Latin identity among Brazil’s music fans

By Tiago Rogero in Rio de Janeiro•The Guardian Music

Puerto Rican singer sells out concerts in Portuguese-speaking Brazil with breakthrough ‘anti-American agenda of emancipation’There is a saying in Brazil that Brazilians realise they are Latin only when they travel to the US or Europe.Among the many reasons for this is that the largest country in Latin America is also the only one in the region where Portuguese is spoken rather than Spanish. Continue reading...

Puerto Rican singer sells out concerts in Portuguese-speaking Brazil with breakthrough ‘anti-American agenda of emancipation’

There is a saying in Brazil that Brazilians realise they are Latin only when they travel to the US or Europe.

Among the many reasons for this is that the largest country in Latin America is also the only one in the region where Portuguese is spoken rather than Spanish.

Continue reading...

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