MIAMI, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Calle 13 and Ruben Blades, David Bisbal, Shaila Durcal, Luz Rios, and Alejandro Sanz are the first performers announced for the 10th Annual Latin GRAMMY® Awards telecast, it was announced today by The Latin Recording Academy®.

REDMOND, Wash., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today Zune, Microsoft Corp.'s end-to-end music and entertainment service, announced jointly with Fania Records the availability of a custom collection of Fania albums consisting of never-before-digitally-released productions.

MIAMI, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Winter Music Conference 2008 -- Fania Records announces the release of its first remix collection "I Like It Like That" pairing up the hottest dance scene remixers with legendary tracks by Fania artists like Pete Rodriguez, Hector Lavoe, Willie Colon and Ruben Blades.

NEW YORK _ It has been 50 years since a New York Latin gang called the Sharks and their spitfire girlfriends first sang this about the Puerto Rican experience in America: "I like to be in America/OK by me in America/Everything free in America/For a small fee in America." The show, a little smash called "West Side Story," happened to have been created by Jews _ including composer Leonard Bernstein and lyricist Stephen Sondheim _ and inspired by Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." And for much of the past half century, this has been the dominant image of Latinos on Broadway.

From Ruben Blades' perspective, Celia Cruz was to salsa music what Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn were to jazz - a classic icon who defined the genre perfectly.