Word: recording
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...demographically, the Latin presence in the U.S. is being felt now as never before. Top-40 radio stations in New York City and Miami are increasingly eager to play Martin along with Tupac and Lauryn Hill, not to mention the unavoidable 1995 hit Macarena. What's more, Latin-genre record sales grew a healthy 21% last year. "Lots of different cultures are accepting Latin music," says Julio Vergara, program director of wskq, New York's top Spanish-language radio station...
...world that Latin people also can make good pop and good rock." Her captivating looks should play well on MTV, and her album is being produced by the godfather of Latin pop, Emilio Estefan. Of course, all the producing and marketing in the world won't carry a bad record across the street. Latin pop will do fine in the English market just so long as its producers don't turn the music's soulfulness and extravagant passion--two things that make it different, and most worth listening to--into just more slick pop product...
...paths crossed again in Los Angeles in the '70s. We both enjoyed watching women's tennis and developed quite a friendship. She was very bright, with a great sense of humor. When she recorded a song I wrote, Love Me by Name, Dusty knew exactly what she wanted. She handpicked the musicians and worked with the arranger for weeks. When she went into the vocal booth, put on the headset and closed her eyes, she reached down into the depths of her soul and made magic. As Dusty is wailing and the record is fading she ad-libs two little...
...journalists who actually talked to her occasionally was our Washington bureau chief, Michael Duffy. Last February, just a month after the scandal broke, the two had a drink together, secretly, at a steak house in Washington. The conversation was off the record, but Michael was struck by how well-spoken and friendly she was--and also how unprepared she seemed for the nightmare unfolding...
Last week she finally agreed to talk to him on the record, the only print interview she has given. They met for more than two hours Friday at the Manhattan penthouse of her mother Marcia Lewis and stepfather Peter Strauss. It followed a few days of negotiations with independent counsel Kenneth Starr's office, because her immunity agreement requires her to get permission before talking to the press. The chief restriction placed on her was that she was not supposed to talk about the prosecutor's treatment of her, which is the subject of an investigation. Duffy says, "The good...