Carla N. is a GRAMMY.com contributor.
For years, Johann Vera's parents urged him for years to stay silent about his sexuality. They offered a multitude of warnings: “If you say that, you're going to kill your grandparents"; “you're inciting your followers to do bad things." “They knew I was gay," the singer and actor tells GRAMMY.com. “But in our family, topics like that were simply never discussed."…
If anyone has managed to build a shield against adversity and stay strong in a constantly shifting world, it’s Wisin. "I feel the discouragement that [many people experience] when we turn on social media, the television, or the news and see terrible things: hunger, injustice, wars. I think the most important thing is to join hands," says the Puerto Rican…
During a particularly emotional period, in his life, Johnny López walked out of the gym one January morning in 2023 and wrote a poem that would become a turning point in his artistic journey. "It was a time when I didn’t like anything I was creating — poems, songs, nothing," López tells GRAMMY.com. In that moment, he decided to push…
