Jimmy Smits transfer be narrating an upcoming PBS pointed documentary series known as Latin Music USA. The October jut out transfer boost honor Hispanic Heritage Month. The following iron releases details the series. June, 22, 2009, Boston, MA- Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor Jimmy Smits transfer celebrate Latin Music USA - a four-hour documentary series scheduled to advertise in primetime onto two consecutive Mondays, October 12 and 19 during Hispanic Heritage Month (9:00-11:00 p.m. stoppage standard of listings) on PBS. As hand in of the project’s multimedia and multicultural iron a outline to, Latin Music USA has partnered with the Spanish TV network V-me to debut the series on two consecutive Tuesdays, October 13th and 20th at 10 p.m., fully translated and narrated in Spanish away Leila Cobo, a certain of the world’s first experts in newfangled Latin music.

Latin Music USA is a life story to American music, reaching across all together and across dulcet genres to avail oneself of the charming gallimaufry sounds created away Latinos - fusions that entertain from entirely to toe enriched simplified music in the US suited for more than five decades. Produced away WGBH and the BBC, the documentary series anchors a decisive, multimedia jut out - on hillock, online, in choice of words and in the community — exploring the vibrant dulcet conversations between Latinos and non-Latinos that entertain helped form the life story of simplified music in the United States. Smits, who is inferior to any circumstances overshadow known suited for his long-running roles on L.A. Law and NYPD Blue, transfer celebrate the English idiolect adaptation of the series. “We are thrilled that Jimmy Smits transfer celebrate Latin Music USA,” says Executive Producer Elizabeth Deane. All of the project’s media platforms transfer be in both English and Spanish. “His geniality, Latino estate and authentic passion suited for the topics explored away the series iron him an mushy cream — and the masterful papal nuncio suited for the jut out.”"To be interested with a jut out of this field and immensity that explores a obedient to so iron to my nitty-gritty is mind-boggling,” says Smits.

“I am so chuffed to be the articulation of this surprising documentary series that I assume reliance to transfer carriage so scads to the thickness and collision of Latin music in this local arrive.”Recognizing the neediness suited for a Los Angeles an end suited for Latin music, Smits became a co-owner, along with Brad Gluckstein, Jennifer Lуpez, Sheila E. and Paul Rodrнguez, of The Conga Room, a simplified music and shindy venue, which became an imperative celebrity and has been referred to as The House of Blues suited for Latin Music. Smits starred in the 1995 excellence coating My Family/Mi Familia, a multigenerational life story of a Chicano family tree, and is no foreigner to the control Latin music has had on American background and music. In 2008, The Conga Room relocated to its just now finding @ LA Live, in the nitty-gritty of downtown Los Angeles.

Though born in New York, Smits habituated to up a horrific pass discoverable of all together in Puerto Rico during his early childhood and has the waves Puerto Rican roots. Smits also played the part of a congressman who became the President of the United States in the absolute two seasons of the showbiz arts series The West Wing, suited for which he won an Alma Award in 1999. He served as Executive Producer of his next series, Cane, in which he also starred.

Smits most recently received depreciative acclaim suited for his chilling bringing off in pep up three of the Showtime series Dexter. His producing part enabled him to amalgamate his dulcet influences into the series while introducing viewers to brand-new Latin dulcet gift. Leila Cobo transfer celebrate the Spanish-language reworking of Latin Music USA on V-me, the fastest growing Hispanic TV network in the United States. The Spanish-language, 24-hour, digital advertise utility is presented over-the-air away not indubitably 40 affiliate PBS stations and is also carried on first radiogram in big markets and nationally via hanger-on. Aside from heading Latin endeavors suited for Billboard, as numero uno airman of Latin contentedness and programming, Cobo has written liner notes suited for scads complete Latin recording artists, including Shakira, Ricky Martin, Julio Iglesias and Chayanne. Cobo is regularly sought discoverable as an connoisseur away a mead classification of media, from the BBC and CNN to The New York Times and The Washington Post, and has served as an end music critic suited for the Miami HeraldOriginally from Colombia, Cobo is a Fulbright schoolgirl and graduated with degrees in journalism and piano bringing off from Manhattan School of Music. As herd of Estudio Billboard, on V-me, she has conducted in-depth interviews with critically acclaimed and best Latin artists including Juanes, Manб, Juan Luis Guerra and Gloria Estefan.

She is also a fiction gossip columnist and her earliest exoticism, Tell Me Something True, transfer be published this go down away Grand Central Publishing. She is at exertion on her secondly words, to be published in 2010. In annexe to the advertise partnership with V-me, which transfer house Latin Music USA earlier an equitable broader audience, Latin Music USA has extended its reach to miscellaneous communities help of a number of key partnerships. People en Espaсol transfer iron leaving aside Latin Music USA boss and promotional features and contentedness that transfer pass visitors and readers a skulk undress at interviews and concert footage from the series. The jut out has developed a multiplatform fabricator partnership with People en Espaсol, the top-selling Hispanic ammunition in the United States, and its Web situation peopleenespanol.com. ABOUT THE LATIN MUSIC USA SERIES Latin Music USA is a life story to American music. Fusions of Latin sounds with jazz, outcrop, local arrive, cheerful and blues - music with deeper roots and broader reach than most people earn.

Latin Music USA features the acclaimed stories of artists including perfect others, Salsa greats Willie Colуn and Marc Anthony; the Latin-inflected sounds hackneyed in much of sixties outcrop and drive from the Drifters to Motown to the Rolling Stones; Carlos Santana; the prominent Chicano outcrop lay bare Los Lobos; megastars Gloria and Emilio Estefan; Ricky Martin and Juanes; reggaeton performers Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderуn; and Lin-Manuel Miranda from the Tony Award-winning dulcet In the Heights. Comprised of four 60-minute episodes, the documentary series features a fast-paced around with add of music and interviews:· Episode One, BRIDGES: The earliest program traces the incline of Latin jazz and the detonation of the mambo and the cha cha cha as they arc the U.S. The clothing experiences of these and scads other unforgettable artists transfer celebrate how Latinos entertain reinvented their music in the United States and forged brand-new identities within this local arrive, while in no MO losing peep of their own creamy traditions. from East to West. Latin music infiltrates R&B and outcrop and drive help of the 1960s. · Episode Two, THE SALSA REVOLUTION: Puerto Ricans and other Latinos in New York reinvent the Cuban son and the Puerto Rican plena, adding elements from vivacity and jazz to iron Salsa, which becomes a defining cheerful suited for Latinos the cosmos onto.

Their music would fidget with an grave part in the contention suited for Chicano consonant rights and at the last launch them from the barrio to the nationwide place. · Episode Three, THE CHICANO WAVE: Mexican Americans in California, Texas and across the Southwest iron their own disjoined dulcet voices during the secondly half of the 20th century. · Episode Four, DIVAS AND SUPERSTARS: Focuses on the Latin an end detonation of the turnof the century and the celebrity of artists like Ricky Martin, Gloria Estefan and Shakira in the English-language demand. As studios gather on star-driven an end, Latino girlhood gravitate toward urban fusions - Spanish conversation and Reggaetуn, as sumptuously as Rock en Espaсol. Latin Music USA was produced away a span led away WGBH, in co-production with the BBC. Funding suited for Latin Music USA is provided away the Corporation suited for Public Broadcasting and portion publicly tube viewers.