Hispanic Heritage Month is annually celebrated between September 15th and October 15th, it’s a time of celebration of the history, culture, and arts of Hispanic and Latino communities. 

We asked students on campus about the first Hispanic or Latino artist that comes to mind and why, and what they think about latino representation in art.

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0:12: Welcome back to Chronicle Chronversations. 

0:14: I’m your host, Guadalupe Loza-Sanchez. 

0:17: Hispanic Heritage Month is annually celebrated between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15.  

0:23: It’s a time of celebration of the history, culture and arts of Hispanic and Latinx communities. 

0:28: We asked students on campus about the first Hispanic or Latinx artist that comes to mind and why, and what they think about Latinx representation in art. 

0:38: Who is the first Hispanic or Latinx artist that comes to your mind and why? 

0:42: I would say that the first artist that comes to mind would be Vicente Fernández. 

0:50: Because I did grow up in a Hispanic household, you are bound to hear your own family just blasting music on, let’s say, a random Sunday in the morning for no reason. 

1:01: And most of the songs that I would always listen to are songs by Vicente Fernández. 

1:08: The first Hispanic artist that comes to mind is Eddie Santiago, 

1:12: because I do remember listening to him a lot. I would say Bad Bunny

1:24: because he’s so 

1:26: huge right now, and especially that he’s getting a lot of people outside of Puerto Rico to listen to the music. Because of his influence, I feel like now Puerto Rico is getting a broader experience as to what our culture and music is, and how people are actually starting to look up where our music originated and where it came from. 

1:35: I guess, first one 

1:40: I’m gonna have to say is Bad Bunny. 

1:41: I know it’s more Latinx, cause he’s from Puerto Rico, but I guess other smaller ones would be like, Shakira and there’s a lot of just smaller local — not local, 

1:54: but local too — smaller bands that have also done a lot in recent years. 

1:59: What do you think about Hispanic or Latinx representation in the arts? 

2:04: Is there enough and why? 

2:06: I would say there is enough, but it’s not being shown as much. 

2:13: You could always have more. 

2:14: It’s very beautiful. 

2:16: I feel like a lot of, even the museums here for the National Museum of Mexican Art, it entwines with a lot of where we started, and over the years and mixing with other cultures as well, it’s evolved to a substantial amount, and it could always go further.

2:36: It could never be enough for a minority — 

2:40: a majority of the art is overshadowing what we can make, and because of those barriers, it’s harder to get to a level of success compared to other artists. 

2:52: Having the ability to expand and grow and include things from our culture that we haven’t seen before, I feel like that would make a huge impact on the art industry, but there’s barriers holding us back, so there definitely should be more. 

3:06: I think there is fairly enough representation now, especially because sometimes we do get to see that culture represented in the Super Bowl or in these 

3:21: public events. 

3:23: I think in the times that we’re living in now, it’s most definitely more prevalent in this society now. 

3:33: Definitely think there’s not enough. 

3:35: I feel like, not that we fly under the radar, but I think there could always be more rep. 

3:46: I’m Guadalupe Loza-Sanchez. 

3:48: Thanks for listening. 

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Additional reporting from Kameron Clepper, Kelly Parker, Madison Blancas, and Andrew Willigman.