Culture

By José Luis Ortiz Güell

 When we think of justice, we often imagine scales, codes, and trials… but we rarely think of the heart that beats behind every case file, behind every struggle for a person to live with dignity.

 Elsa Mateo is not only a lawyer: she is a brave woman, a bridge between cultures, a force of human transformation. Her story reminds us that the law can be technical, but justice must always be human. Today, chosen as Universal Woman of the Year – Special Cruise Edition 2026, Elsa opens the doors to her life, her motivation, and her legacy.

After sharing the stage with Carlos Baute and other major names, the trio embraces an intimate, emotional, and contemporary rumba without losing their roots.

By Susan Villa.

 After the impact of “Corazones de Colores,” a project linked to designer Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada, Chaito & Palosanto take a turn toward a more intimate proposal, where emotion and sensuality take center stage. “Conquistarte” arrives at a moment of absolute maturity for the group, consolidating an artistic evolution that, as they themselves explain in this interview, has been natural and aimed at connecting with an increasingly broader audience without losing their flamenco essence.

 By José Luis Ortiz Güell

 There are lives that cannot fit into a single page, nor into a single country, nor into a single grief. There are women who, by losing everything, become everything for many others. This is not an interview; it is a mirror. In it is reflected the story of Sara Chávez: entrepreneur, refugee, mother, leader. Founder of the magazine Mujeres de Élite, her voice emerges from scars and becomes a loudspeaker for other women silenced by distance, migration, fear, or oblivion. From El Salvador to Barcelona, crossing real and emotional deserts, Sara is today a symbol of resilience with a human face. This conversation seeks to transcend journalism: it is an offering to dignity, courage, and the right to reinvent oneself even after the abyss.

Following her appearance on Feat on RTVE Play, the artist presents Axis, an introspective album where she blends R&B, electronic music, and personal spirituality

By Susan Villa.

 With a career that has moved between the international electronic scene and an increasingly introspective artistic identity, Lara Taylor now stands at a decisive moment in her career. Singer, songwriter, and DJ, her journey includes residencies at some of the temples of dance music and collaborations with major names on the global scene, but also a personal process that is now crystallizing into an honest and uncompromising artistic proposal of her own. In this interview, the artist opens an unusual window into her story, shaped both by an early vocation and by the emotional challenges that have accompanied her evolution.

By. Osiris Valdés López 

Time, pause for a moment your invisible wing.

Sky, bow your burning vault.

Be witnesses to the sacred mystery 

By José Luis Ortiz Güell.

 Madrid has consolidated itself in recent years as the setting for cultural initiatives that seek to connect different sectors of society. In this context, the figure of Killa Tedesqui emerges as the driving force behind a project that combines communication, international projection, and social commitment: the Europa Multicultural Awards.

 With a career linked to the fields of communication, cultural production, and event organization, Tedesqui has developed a multidisciplinary professional profile in which her experience in the audiovisual sector, her entrepreneurial facet, and her ability to generate projects with public impact converge.

 The Portuguese artist Edgar Pinto explores desire, memory, and Andalusian roots in a release that definitively consolidates his international projection in current Iberian markets.

By Susan Villa.

 Eddie (Edgar Pinto) has built a career marked by the dialogue between Iberian and Latin American musical cultures, moving naturally between Portugal, Spain, and the Lusophone universe. A producer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist, his trajectory reflects an artistic identity that combines emotional sensitivity, studio experience, and an open approach to different sonic languages.

 Interview with the creator of “Plásticos y Decibelios”: half a century of unique experiences and deep listening in an era of immediacy

 By Susan Villa

 For a quarter of a century, Plásticos y Decibelios has been much more than a music website: it has served as a refuge for attentive listening, a space of resistance against speed and forgetfulness, and a critical compass in a territory increasingly dominated by algorithms. Born when the internet had not yet dictated the rules of cultural consumption, and when sharing music was almost a clandestine act, the platform has survived—and strengthened—thanks to an idea as simple as it is demanding: discernment. In an ecosystem where new often gets confused with immediate and popular with relevant, Plásticos y Decibelios has defended, week after week without interruption, consistency as a form of thought and quality as the only possible engine.

Portrait in literary prose

 By Wilson Rogelio Enciso

On steep and windswept hills in southern Italy, in the Molise region, near the enchanting Adriatic Sea and at a “crossroads” toward the admirable central-eastern Balkans, stands a beautiful agricultural village called Santa Croce di Magliano.

 Since 2013, when the Antonio Giordano Prize was established there, this bucolic hamlet became an “artists’ residence.” In those lands, virtuosos find fresh inspiration for their creations, as well as the quality and hospitality of its nearly five thousand inhabitants. Since then, every summer the open-air art spaces have multiplied, with exhibitions on house facades, squares, stairways, and everywhere else. Creativity seems to infect anyone who crosses, wanders through, hides in, takes refuge in, or takes root in Santa Croce di Magliano.

The Barcelona singer-songwriter revisits his repertoire through an intimate and reflective lens, blending folk, Latin American sounds and Berlin cabaret in his new record alongside Las Almas Sedientas.

By Susan Villa

 Daniel Cros presents El Murmullo de la Lluvia, an album in which the Barcelona singer-songwriter revisits part of his repertoire from a more intimate and reflective perspective. The album, set to be released on May 20, continues the path initiated in El rumor de las olas, a work published in 2024 and marked by collaborations with artists from different countries and sensibilities.

Culture

 By José Luis Ortiz Güell

 In a ceremony that promises to bring together the very best of continental talent, the organization behind the Europa Awards has today unveiled the list of personalities and institutions that will be honored in its 2026 edition. Considered by critics as “Europe’s highest awards for excellence,” these distinctions once again recognize outstanding professional careers and exceptional contributions across all fields of human knowledge.

 The selection of the new award recipients, whose verdict remained secret until very recently, underscores the multicultural and transdisciplinary character that defines these awards, which will be held in Madrid. Sources close to the organizing committee told this correspondent that this year’s deliberation was particularly competitive, reflecting the richness and diversity of Europe’s creative, scientific, and social landscape, with more than 800 candidates considered.

The Cartagena artist reflects on his time with Bisbal and presents the most intimate and current version of his music.

By Susan Villa.

 Raúl “El Balilla” has spent more than a decade proving that flamenco knows no age limits when talent emerges naturally. That young boy from Cartagena who moved millions of viewers on La Voz Kids singing Camarón de la Isla has today become one of the most promising young voices in the current flamenco scene. At just 21 years old, he has released six albums, performed more than 350 concerts, and built a social media following of over one million people.

 By. Osiris Valdés López 

In the mornings I am jazz,
ethereal whisper sliding among diaphanous rays,
and my hands, trembling with reverence,
brushing the piano of the day,
touch the secret fibers of the universe.

 By José Luis Ortiz Güell

 An intimate conversation with the General Director of ClickradioTV about journalism, values, and the soul behind the microphone

 1. How did your passion for communication begin, and what led you to lead ClickradioTV?

 My initial passion was something else, and life and circumstances guided me to where I am today. ClickradioTV and its leader, Javier Lillo, have transformed my current profession into my true passion

 By. Osiris Valdés López 

Under the livid vault where Saturn sharpens his rings
and the constellations bleed a glow of sick amethyst,
I pronounce your name
as one unveils a cursed relic.
I pronounce it —
and the crypts awaken.
The marble saints weep black wine.
The virgins bow their crowns of gilded thorns.
An invisible organ breathes in the abyss’s entrails
and exhales a deep chord
that smells of myrrh, iron, and absolutionless eternity

 They analyze collaboration, identity, and the Málaga–Canary Islands music video that visually connects their personal and artistic places of origin

 By Susan Villa

 At a time when urban music is increasingly built through collaboration and the blending of identities, Carlos Heredia and Bry M. find themselves at a natural point of convergence. Two young artists from different territories—Málaga and the Canary Islands—who share the same musical sensibility and a contemporary vision of the urban genre, open to the crossing of influences, roots, and personal experiences. From that connection emerges “Taurito,” a song that functions not only as a single but also as a sonic portrait of unity, creative complicity, and shared projection.

 By. Osiris Valdés López 

Your eyes are abysses where time dissolves,
crystal domes that contain silent storms,
universes folded into a pair of bleeding moons,
and in their depth my destiny dissolves.

They are eclipses that devour the shadow of the world,
candelabras of liquid fire that illuminate sleeping memories,
labyrinths of reflections where lost souls
whisper secrets that the gods have sold.

Culture

By José Luis Ortiz Güell

 The renowned journalist was honored for her career in a ceremony that brought together Rafael Amargo, Carlos Latre, Diego Losada and representatives from more than twenty countries under the motto “the humanity behind success.”

 The Hotel Ilunion Pío XII became, on April 17, the epicenter of multicultural European recognition, and on that stage one figure emerged with a light of her own: María Casado. The acclaimed Spanish journalist not only received an award, but also rose as the visible soul of the Europa Multicultural Awards 2026, in an evening where diversity, talent, and social commitment wove together a narrative as global as it was deeply human.

 By José Luis Ortiz Güell

 The air in Madrid carried electricity that June 27. It was not merely the presentation of a book; it was the eruption of a voice that had broken its chains. Helena Cueto H, author of Paz en busca de su inocencia, stood before the audience not as a victim, but as a guide to resilience . Between the pages of her work and the fractures of her story, there is a clear message: What is not named does not exist. Today, in this space, Helena dismantles taboos with the raw honesty of someone who no longer fears ghosts.

 Welcome to a conversation that hurts—but above all, liberates.

 By. Osiris Valdés López 

Between paradisiacal beaches and sands that whisper eternities,
where the sunrise paints unprecedented canvases,
the air is perfumed with wine on silent altars,
and the breeze caresses memories time dares not profane.

 By José Luis Ortiz Güell

 Beneath the sky of Madrid, in the Aula Magna of the Universidad Carlos III, words and silences intertwined to weave a tribute as vast as the heart of the man they honored: Federico Mayor Zaragoza. Scientist, poet, humanist, and beacon of peace, his life was a poem written in the ink of hope, and this event, titled “A Life for Peace,” was the melody that remembered him.

 By. Osiris Valdés López 

The other night, in the dimness of my bedroom,
three ghosts visited my flesh and my blood.

The first came from the past,
with fingers of smoke and lips of bitter caramel.
Whispers of ancient kisses ran through me,
and my body responded, trembling amid burning memories.
It was nostalgia that caresses the skin,
a fire that burns without consuming itself.

 Five million streams, a transatlantic tour, and Todo en su lugar, the album that consolidates her generational voice.

 By Susan Villa.

 Mercedes Cañas’s career has been consolidated, in a very short time, as one of the most honest and recognizable voices in today’s pop-folk scene. Following the impact of her first album Que entren en mi cabeza and two extensive tours on both sides of the Atlantic, the Madrid-born singer-songwriter presents Todo en su lugar, a second work that confirms her artistic maturity and her ability to transform the intimate into a shared language.

 By. Osiris Valdés López 

Beneath the blackened dome of a sky without absolution,
where the angels have let their trumpets fall
and the incense mingles with the feverish aroma of flesh,
I name you.

I name you as one who summons a fire
in the middle of an abandoned cathedral.
Let the curtains of destiny be drawn open,
let the gilded boxes of human judgment creak,
for tonight virtue will be merely
a trembling spectator.

 By José Luis Ortiz Güell

 Artificial intelligence is already changing industries. Those who are not using it are not competing—they are trying not to disappear.

One of the sectors where this change is most visible—though few expected it—is online casinos. We’re not talking about slot machines with vintage graphics or looping animated roulette wheels. We’re talking about platforms that use AI to create video games from scratch in days, personalize the experience for each player, and reinvent what “playing” means in 2025.

 By Osiris Valdés López 

They were not months: they were hierophanies,
incarnations of the primal pulse,
three powers of ancient shadows
bound to the rhythm of the sincere orb.

March descends —sensual and perennial—,
with skin of frost and an ignited breath;
in its gaze, volcanic, solemn,
burns an abyss of conceived love.

 By Osiris Valdés López

Because there are artists who paint canvases… and there are souls who paint life. Yilian, without a doubt, does both...

 In life, there are people who don’t just arrive—they stay. Presences that transform. Different people. Extraordinary people. Today, I have the honor—and the deep emotion—of speaking about one of them, my dear friend, Yilian Peña. Someone who knows how to transform every space she touches through her art and sensitivity.

by Carlos Javier Jarquin

 On the afternoon of January 28, I had the privilege of attending the presentation of the musical album Suite Guitarra Social by the Costa Rican singer-songwriter, poet, and academic Natalia Esquivel Benítez. The event took place at the Benemérita National Library of Costa Rica and was organized by the Ministry of Culture and Youth, through the Benemérita National Library (part of SINABI), the Humanistic Training Area of UTN, the cultural collective Trébol Carmesí, and Natalia Esquivel.

 By Osiris Valdés López 

While I sleep, my flesh surrenders,
and my spirit rises, sovereign and trembling,
like a flame detached from the temple of the body,
like a kiss that refuses to return to its origin.

 Creator of the music for the 10th Anniversary of King Felipe VI, he reflects on his international career and a body of work marked by artistic identity.

 By Susan Villa

 Over more than two decades of artistic trajectory, Óscar Navarro has established himself as one of the most recognizable and personal voices in contemporary music, with a distinctive language that moves naturally between symphonic music, the audiovisual field, and the international concert scene. His work—performed in some of the world’s most emblematic auditoriums and theatres, such as Carnegie Hall, La Scala, and the Auditorio Nacional—is distinguished by a profound emotional charge and a clear narrative vocation, where music not only sounds, but tells stories and seeks a direct connection with the listener. Far removed from preconceived formulas, Navarro understands composition as a vital process, in which artistic identity is built progressively, through creative honesty and the need to communicate from the most intimate place.

 By. Osiris Valdés López 

It was not the thunder that struck us down from the sky,
nor the ancient fury of jealous stars;
it was the simple and trembling miracle
of looking at each other without armor.

We fell—
but not into the abyss,
rather into the burning flesh of the world,
where dust has memory
and the heartbeat dictates laws deeper than destiny.

By Susan Villa.

 The return of Coyote Dax to the music scene marks a milestone in his artistic evolution and his impact on the public. With his new single, “No vuelvas más,” the singer fuses country elements with Latin rhythms, giving a fresh and renewed twist to his characteristic style. This combination demonstrates his ability to reinvent himself and connect with a diverse audience.

 By Osiris Valdés López 

I am your raging wave and the mystery of your secrets

I am your raging wave,
the one that breaks upon your shore when you fall silent,
the untamed pulse of the sea that senses you
even when fear keeps your words.

 Interview with Xana de Jesús

 By José Luis Ortiz Güell

 There are people who not only light up a room when they enter, but leave an indelible mark on the hearts of those who know them. Xana de Jesús is one of them. With a warm smile and eyes that reflect a thousand stories, this woman has turned her battles into verses, her scars into images, and her pain into a beacon of hope for others. Behind her multidisciplinary talent beats an extraordinary sensitivity—one possessed only by those who have learned to dance in the rain. Today, she opens the doors to her world, where art and humanity intertwine with moving strength.

 By Osiris Valdés López 

He crossed the night of humankind,
he drank of fear, of iron, and of spite;
he saw broken temples, heard the rite
of exile sworn in sanctified names.

 Murcia and Valencia expand capacity due to overwhelming fan enthusiasm; Seville and Málaga are close to selling out.

 By Susan Villa.

 Madrid, September 29, 2025 — Mónica Naranjo returns to the music scene with the strength and authenticity that have made her one of the most admired artists on the international stage. She does so with the release of “Por un Like,” her new single, now available on digital platforms and already playing on radio stations across the country. The track, produced by the duo Nebulossa, represents a reunion with the sound that turned her into an icon, combining her unmistakable voice with a timely and critical reflection on the impact of social media on identity and self-esteem.

 By Osiris Valdés López 

May our voice never tremble when inspiration knocks at the door at midnight.
May we not remain silent about what burns, even if it scorches the tongue.
May poets never lack the spark that sets fire to the blank page,
nor the necessary wound to write with invisible blood on the margin of time.

 By. Osiris Valdés López

 Exploring the Mystery of Creation: An Exclusive Interview with Zoé Valdés

 “Life is too palpable and evident; creation is the true mystery.”
                                                                         — Zoé Valdés

 In this edition, I have the immense honor of presenting an intimate conversation with Zoé Milagros Valdés, one of the most prominent voices in contemporary literature. Zoé is a multifaceted writer whose more than thirty titles include narrative, poetry, essays and screenplays, all imbued with a critical and nostalgic vision of life in Cuba.

A poem by Osiris Valdés

My Night's Rainbow

I want to traverse the geography of your body,
and learn about life and your biology,
with your bones, with the pain of your times.
I want you to flow freely through my blood,
to turn your name into the most beautiful verse.

 The Venezuelan artist marks three decades of success with a romantic anthem that is winning hearts and digital platforms

 By Susan Villa

 Romanticism has a new anthem. Carlos Baute, the Venezuelan singer-songwriter who has captivated audiences with his charisma and unmistakable voice, returns with “Quién Mejor Que Tú,” a song that reaffirms his place as one of the great storytellers of love in Latin music.

By Osiris Valdés López 

 By Carlos Javier Jarquín

 Dear cyber community, I am delighted to share with you an interview I conducted with a great artist of Colombian origin and naturalized Costa Rican citizen. It is a true honor to interview such a multifaceted and humanistic person, a woman who has given everything for human empowerment and who, throughout her life, has been in constant learning, exploration and dissemination of knowledge through music, counseling, education and books.

 By Osiris Valdés López 

They were eyes that had lived.

Not like those other blue eyes
that still held an innocence
from which a human only heals
with the passage of time and the passing of years.