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The Latin Recording Academy® - or LARAS -produces the annual Latin GRAMMY Awards®, called "The Biggest Night in Latin Music®." The international nonprofit's CEO Manuel Abud stepped into his role a year ago. Now, he's joined this summer by Enrique Pérez, the new LARAS Head of Partnerships & Client Solutions. The two men worked together at Telemundo and Azteca. They join The Revolución co-hosts Kathryn Garcia Castro, Linda Lane González, Diego Lastra, and Court Stroud to talk about topics including the explosion in popularity of Latin music, such as Bad Bunny's recent #1 worldwide ranking on streaming service Spotify; how the Academy chose its 2022 Person of the Year™, Marco Antonio Solís; and the foundation of their professional relationship and personal friendship.

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Former Miss America Vanessa William made her Broadway debut in 1994 as the title role in “Kiss of the Spider Woman.” Seated at the piano during rehearsals was a musician named Seth Rudetsky.

Years later, she had become a multiplatinum recording artist and star of television, film, and stage. He was an Emmy-nominated writer, composer, and popular host on Sirius/XM’s Broadway channel. They were placed near each other at a wedding. “We were like chitty chat, chitty chat,” Seth remembers. He then said, “I do these really fun concerts, where instead of doing scripted patter, I get to interview you in between each song. It's really spontaneous.” Vanessa said, “Sure. Yeah!” And they’ve been doing these shows together ever since.

The friend join The Revolución podcast co-hosts Linda Lane González, Diego Lastra, Kathryn Garcia Castro and Court Stroud to chat about the 2022 Tony Awards, their careers, LGBTQ Pride Month, and their upcoming concert in New York City's Town Hall.

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Most books have a quiet birth, but not “Neruda on the Park” (Ballantine 2022). Cleyvis Natera’s debut novel has been trumpeted by NBC’s “The Today Show” as one of its “what to read this summer” recommendations. Elle Magazine named it among the season’s “must-read” books. The positive New York Times review called the work “earnest, provocative” and praised the author’s style as “refreshingly direct and declarative . . . a mirror capturing the bleak comedies of life in a threatened community.” Publications like The Rumpus, Electric Lit, The Millions, and Lit Hub selected the newly released title as one of the year’s most anticipated. Natera talks with The Revolución co-hosts Kathryn Garcia Castro and Linda Lane González about the story behind her desire to be a writer, her family’s reaction to her novel, and when she first discovered the poetry of Pablo Neruda.

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Inspired by 9/11, Tony Valdovinos's childhood dream was to serve as a Marine. But on his 18th birthday, he discovered a family secret which prevented his dream from coming true. Born in Mexico, Tony was an undocumented immigrant. His moving story has been turned into ¡Americano! The Musical which runs through June 19th in New York City. The Revolución's Linda Lane Gonzalez, Kathryn Garcia Castro, and Court Stroud talk with Valdovinos about his journey. (Diego Lastra is on hiatus this episode.) Joining Tony for this interview are Carrie Rodriguez, an "Ameri-Chicana" singer-songwriter from Austin, Texas, who has performed on Austin City Limits, The Tonight Show, and NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts, and Fernanda Santos, an award-winning author and professor at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School.

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Representation matters but has there been progress? Nielsen's latest Diverse Intelligence Series report shows diversity on-screen at an all-time high across cable, broadcast, and streaming platforms. Yet the report ("Being Seen on Screen: The Importance of Quantity and Quality Representation on TV") also finds a quarter of viewers surveyed say that representation is inaccurate.

Nielsen SVP Stacie de Armas and tick, tick...BOOM! actor Robin de Jesús join The Revolución cohosts Kathryn Garcia Castro, Diego Lastra, and Court Stroud for a spirited discussion about the new study's findings. The conversation ranges from what's happening on the ground in media and entertainment to the difference between AfroLatinidad and colorism to how "gay white men can also be colonizers."

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At the Hispanic Television Summit, leading media buyers and sales executives discuss the rapid changes and new opportunities for brand messaging that advanced advertising and streamed content are providing to advertisers. This panel features Isabel Rafferty, Founder & CEO of Canela Media, a leading digital media tech company; Jason Hall, EVP, Advertising Sales for Estrella Media, and the person responsible for ad sales over the company's TV, radio and digital assets; and Michael Roca, Managing Director, Multicultural for global media and marketing communications agency PHD Media.

The Revolución co-host Court Stroud moderates the panel, joined by podcast co-hosts Diego Lastra, Linda Lane González, and Kathryn Garcia Castro for the intro and outro.

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Category: Business, Society & Culture, Television & Film

The Revolución examines cultural trends in media, entertainment and advertising. Hosted by media sales professional Kathryn Garcia Castro, thought leader and consumer researcher Linda Lane González, ad agency executive Diego Lastra, writer Court Stroud, and media marketing consultant Ana Crandell (on hiatus), each episode aims to inform, entertain and inspire audiences—Hispanics and non-Hispanics alike—through interviews of experts, newsmakers and celebrities. Guests include Gloria Estefan, Maria Hinojosa, Andrés Cantor, Don Francisco (Mario Luis Kreutzberger), and Edward James Olmos.

“Ours is a revolution of mind and heart … ” -Cesar Chavez

Kathryn Garcia Castro, Linda Lane González, Diego Lastra, Ana Crandell, and Court Stroud

Dominican-American Kathryn Garcia Castro has held executive sales roles at major media companies such as Univision Communications, Azteca America, Nokia, Time Inc and technology start-ups. She began her career working at multicultural advertising agency The Bravo Group. Kathryn currently lives in Los Angeles where she volunteers at Cedars Sinai Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, serving as parent support and advisor to management.

A true Texan-Mexican, Linda Lane González currently divides her time between Miami and Guanajuato, Mexico, has spent her career helping Fortune 500 clients connect and engage with multicultural consumers. Linda is a past Chair of the Cultural Marketing Council, Program Director of The Conference Board’s Multicultural Marketing Council and a founding member of ANA’s AIMM organization. Linda is a contributor to CNN, CNN Dinero, NPR, and Bloomberg among others on Multicultural issues.

Mexico City native Diego Lastra is the Associate Media Director at Dieste, one of the country’s leading multicultural advertising and marketing agencies. Passionate about social and cultural trends, he enjoys learning from the past to analyze and understand the present. In 2017, Diego launched the Advertising Diversity Podcast. Now through Revolución, he’s excited to continue talking with industry leaders and cultural luminaries.

Born and raised in Bolivia, Ana Crandell is a longtime marketing & media executive and consultant. She began her career by leading the creation of the media department at Lopez Negrete Communications and later played an integral role in the creation of OMD Multicultural. Ana has been a key advisor on multicultural initiatives for blue-chip clients like Walmart, McDonald’s and State Farm.

San Antonio, Texas native Court Stroud has worked at Univision, Telemundo, Azteca, CBS and several digital startups. As an adjunct faculty member at N.Y.U., he created the undergraduate course “Diversity in Media & Advertising.” Court holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School. His writing may be found in The New York Times, Washington Post and Forbes, where he’s a contributing writer.