This 2 DVD set from the PBS series highlights the great American music created by Latinos, reaching across 5 decades. Included are Latin jazz with Machito; mambo with Perez Prado; R&B and rock in the 1960s, from the Drifters to Santana and beyond; reinvention of Cuban and Puerto Rican rhythms; Fania Records with Willie Colón, Héctor Lavoe, and Rubén Blades; Ritchie Valens, Freddy Fender, Linda Ronstadt, Los Lobos, and Selena; Latin pop with Ricky Martin, Shakira, and Gloria Estefan; and urban fusions of reggaetón with Daddy Yankee and rapper Pitbull, and rock en español star Juanes.

4 hours