{"id":76016,"date":"2024-03-20T12:05:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T16:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/03\/20\/nicki-nicole-headlines-first-billboard-spanish-language-music-forum-in-madrid\/"},"modified":"2024-03-20T12:05:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T16:05:07","slug":"nicki-nicole-headlines-first-billboard-spanish-language-music-forum-in-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/03\/20\/nicki-nicole-headlines-first-billboard-spanish-language-music-forum-in-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicki Nicole Headlines First Billboard Spanish-Language Music Forum in\u00a0Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tManagers, record label executives and artists \u2014 including icon Raphael<\/a>, Luis Cobos, La Mala Rodr\u00edguez, Paula Cendejas, Yotuel and Maikel Delacalle \u2014 participated in a series of conversations and panels as part of the first Forum on Spanish Language Music in Madrid presented by the Community of Madrid and powered by Billboard<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe one day, invite-only event \u2014 attended by some 500 artists, managers and industry execs \u2014\u00a0sought to highlight the growing consumption of music in Spanish across continents, and featured four panel conversations, as well as a Q&A and performance by Argentine superstar Nicki Nicole<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe singer, who made history as the first urban female artist to both enter and top Billboard Argentina\u2019s Hot 100 chart, just finished a round of nine sold-out arena dates in her native Buenos Aires, and will perform her first sold out 15,000-seat WiZink Center in Madrid on March 21. She is also this month\u2019s Billboard Espa\u00f1ol <\/em>cover star.<\/p>\n

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\n\tNicki Nicole\u2019s status as an artist who rose to popularity in her native Argentina but is now selling out arenas worldwide highlighted the forum\u2019s focus on the new generation of cross-continent, cross-genre, cross-focus Latin acts who are now dominating the charts and the fact that Madrid is an epicenter of that fluidity.<\/p>\n

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Raphael at the first Forum on Spanish Language Music in Madrid, presented by the Community of Madrid and powered by Billboard.
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\n\t\u201cSpain fully embraces its role as part of a new Latin music movement,\u201d said <\/strong>Jorge \u201cPepo\u201d Ferradas, who manages Colombian artist Camilo<\/a> and Spanish artist Rels B, both of whom have had success on opposite sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

\n\tFerradas was part of an opening powerhouse panel that also featured Walter Kolm, founder of WK Entertainment and manager of Maluma<\/a> and Carlos Vives, among others; Fede Lauria, founder of Dale Play Records and manager of Bizarrap and Nicki Nicole; Alex Gallardo, president of Sony Music U.S. Latin; and Rosa Lagarrigue, founder of RLM Entertainment and manager of Rozalen and Raphael.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was followed by a one-on-one conversation with Spanish icon Raphael, who at 80 years old said he had no plans to retire. \u201cI don\u2019t see myself in the role of not doing anything,\u201d he deadpanned.<\/p>\n

\n\tThen, artists La Mala Rodr\u00edguez, Yotuel, Maikel Delacalle and Paula Cendejas sat down for an animated discussion on the current state of music, followed by an interview with venerable conductor Luis Cobos, president of the newly minted Spanish Academy of Music, which is slated to host its first ever award show later this Spring.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe day\u2019s grand finale was a surprisingly candid and intimate conversation with Billboard Espa\u00f1ol<\/em> cover star Nicki Nicole, who opened up about how she catalyzes her personal experiences in music and also revealed she will soon release a new single with another Spanish icon, Alejandro Sanz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Nicki Nicole at the first Forum on Spanish Language Music in Madrid, presented by the Community of Madrid and powered by Billboard.
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\n\tNicki also performed a set of six songs in a new semi-acoustic, lo-fi \u00a0format with the singer backed by a keyboard, drums and guitar, highlighting vocals that have become sultrier and broader ranging.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe forum opened on Tuesday afternoon with a welcome from Billboard<\/em>\u2019s chief content officer for Latin\/Espa\u00f1ol Leila Cobo, and Mariano de Paco Serrano, Madrid\u2019s minister of culture, tourism and sports, who underscored the importance of music to the city and its role in \u201cfostering talent and the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Managers, record label executives and artists \u2014 including icon Raphael, Luis Cobos, La Mala Rodr\u00edguez, Paula Cendejas, Yotuel and Maikel Delacalle \u2014 participated in a series of conversations and panels as part of the first Forum on Spanish Language Music in Madrid presented by the Community of Madrid and powered by Billboard. The one day, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}