Meet the teenage old souls making dreamy Latinx pop, from their bedroom to yours

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Informed by, but not beholden to, border-blurring vintage balladry and soulful love songs, the sound is driven by young Latinx singers drawing on oldies for stylistic inspiration.

One day a few years ago, Mauri Tapia, the artist who performs as Los Retros, was riding around Oxnard with his dad. The car stereo was turned up, blasting the stuff his parents typically played around the house, when Tapia had a realization. “He was playing Los Angeles Negros, Los Terricolas” — late-1960s ballad bands from, respectively, Chile and Venezuela — “and they had that drum sound that I liked.

Perhaps most notably, the dashing young norteño singer Ed Maverick, whose sweet Spanish-language come-ons have propelled him onto the Mexican charts, will make his first-ever stateside performance. Pity the poor A&R exec who isn’t tuned to the Viva! frequency. Next to him in the spacious yard is his parents’ garage, which is being converted into Bones’ future live-work space; he now records both in his ocean-blue bedroom and at a friend’s studio in the San Fernando Valley.

Singer and multi-instrumentalist Mauri Tapia, 19, performs as Los Retros. He makes his music in the family living room.To arrive at his sound, Los Retros’ Tapia started reverse-engineering his favorite hip-hop and dance tracks to uncover the sampled source material, he says, sitting at a table at El Taco de Mexico in downtown Oxnard.

Easing between languages, New Jersey transplant Ambar Lucid composes lyrics informed by her experience as a first-generation Mexican American whose father was deported when she was 5. After scoring her first acoustic guitar from a relative’s garage at age 11, she started sharing covers of Sia, Radiohead, Pierce the Veil and Selena Gomez songs.

 

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How do you pronounce Latinx? I never learned that one in Spanish class.

“Latinx” Tenía que ser Los Ángeles. esto ya ni parodiar se puede.

People who use the word “latinx” need to be bich slapped with a chimichanga

What ever happened to Los Super Elegantes? They were cute!!

Can't wait to hear them🙌💖

So much talent here. The songs are beautiful. Very creative!

What is “Latinx?”

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