Hip hop musician, songwriter, and composer Alicia Kristina Guastaferro, popularly known as Alicia G, is from Buffalo, New York. Alicia G is the epitome of the pop-culture world, with a refined sense of style honed over years of pageantry. https://open.spotify.com/artist/6B1EORFG9OJdxcjGL4ljxY In fact, by the time she was fifteen years old, Alicia had already been participating in beauty pageants around the country since she was eleven months old....

Samantha Mora’s “Luto” arrived like a half-remembered dream, a wisp of smoke curling from a candle just extinguished. It's not a song to shout from rooftops; it's something you feel in the space between your breaths. Her voice is so smooth, a rich velvet you could lose yourself in. You'd almost think it could just glide across the cumbia rhythms like a hummingbird over...