page_title: Latin rock
section_title: Controversy about the term
hierarchical_section_title: Latin rock / Controversy about the term
caption_attribution_description: Español: Los Fabulosos Cadillacs en Medillín, Colombia
context_page_description: Latin rock is a term to describe a music subgenre consisting in melting traditional sounds and elements of Latin American and Caribbean folk with rock music. However, it is widely used in the English-language media to refer any kind of rock music featuring Spanish or Portuguese vocals. This fact led to controversy about the scope of the terminology.
  Latin rock should not be confused with "rock music from Latin America" or rock en español. It's also closely related to the Latin alternative scene a term often used to refer the same phenomenon.
context_section_description: During the late 1990s, the rising population of "Latinos" in the US(term popularized since the 1960s due to the wrong and confusing use of "Spanish" term and the unpopular term "Hispanic") led the music industry to create the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences as a sub-department of National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Also, in 2000 the Latin Grammy Awards were created. Thus, a great part of the English media started to refer any kind of music featuring vocals in Spanish as "Latin music".
  This term achieved a great success in some Latin American countries, where some of their regional press started to use the new terminology. This phenomenon spread the use of the "latin rock" term with a completely different meaning of the original one. This led to controversy and confusion among many in the population.
caption: Argentine band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
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