Similarly to “Sex in the City,” to which it was often compared by critics upon its 2001 release, the Argentinean series Cuatro Amigas [Four Friends] examines four professional women and the intricacies of their viewpoints on and relationships with men.

In this episode of Sonido Babel, we'll learn about plena: a musical genre from Puerto Rico that is played with a multitude of different instruments and deals with a plethora of topics from religion, events, recipes, advice, and even superstitions.

“Rock en español” is what we refer to the relatively new movement of musicians from Spanish speaking countries singing in their native language. Back in the sixties and seventies, these musicians were taken up with rock like much of the rest of the world, but they sang in English. Puerto Rican Carli Muñoz explains while looking back over his career.