From tongue-in-check antics poking fun at the music industry to heartfelt odes to salsa, here's what we loved this year.

Mexican singer-songwriter Macario Martínez had a most improbable rise in 2025 from street cleaner to viral music sensation.

“It's insane that it took so long . . ." Helen Ochoa says When Helen Ochoa covered Beyonce’s “If I Were a Boy” in 2013, she gave it a regional Mexican makeover by singing it in Spanish with banda ...

From heartfelt tributes to tradition to orchestral reminders to embrace the present, here’s what we loved this year ...