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Latin Music USA is gonna’ move you.

The new, two-part PBS series premieres Monday, Oct. 12, and continues on Oct. 19 at 9 p.m. on Ch. 8/KAET-TV. It’s narrated by el guapo Jimmy Smits.
From Latin jazz and Mambo to salsa, Tejano, Chicano rock, Latin pop and reggaeton, Latin Music USA tells the story of the rise of a new American music forged from powerful Latin roots and reveals the often overlooked influence of Latin music on jazz, hip hop, rhythm and blues and rock ‘n’ roll — and on all of American culture.

Oct. 12
Episode 1, “Bridges:” The rise of Latin Jazz and the explosion of the Mambo and the Cha Cha Chá as they sweep the U.S.; the great Machito and the explosion of the Mambo with Pérez Prado, to the Drifters, Santana and beyond.

Episode 2, “The Salsa Revolution:” Puerto Ricans and other Latinos in New York reinvent the Cuban Son and the Puerto Rican Plena, adding elements from soul and jazz to create salsa, which becomes a defining rhythm for Latinos the world over. You’ll love Willie Colón, Héctor Lavoe, and Rubén Blades.

Oct. 19
Episode 3, “The Chicano Wave:” From Ritchie Valens and Freddy Fender to Linda Ronstadt, Los Lobos, and Selena, a new generation of Mexican Americans raised on rock, rhythm and blues, and country music expresses its cultural identity through Chicano rock, Latin rock, and Tejano.

Episode 4, “Divas and Superstars:” A look at the Latin Pop explosion of the turn of the century and the success of artists such as Ricky Martin, Gloria Estefan, Shakira, Daddy Yankee,  rapper Pitbull, and “rock en español” superstar Juanes.

Go to  www.pbs.org  to buy the two-disc set. 
$39.99; release date Oct. 12.