La canción de la semana #1024

...is Desde Que Te Fuiste by Javier Cisneros Rengifo as performed by Alexa Ramírez.

Alexa Janina Ramírez: vocals, cello Víctor Vento: guitar Willy Ortega: guitar David Gómez Herrera: double bass Gino Gamboa: cajón

La canción de la semana #1019

...is Las Rosas No Hablan, a Spanish-language version of As Rosas Não Falam by Cartola, performed by the Melissa Aldana Quartet featuring Cécile McLorin Salvant. This ballad appears on the Chilean saxophonist's 2026 album Filin.

Melissa Aldana: tenor saxophone Gonzalo Rubalcaba: piano Peter Washington: double bass Kush Abadey: drums Cécile McLorin Salvant: vocals

La canción de la semana #1018

...is Mal de Amores by Lila Downs, from her new album, Cambias Mi Mundo.

La canción de la semana #1015

...is Mi Gran Amor composed by Édgar Barrera and performed by Santana and Becky G. In the interview with Billboard, Barrera said that he wrote the song "after learning that a friend had been detained by ICE".

migra f. coloq. Méx. Cuerpo de la Policía de inmigración de los Estados Unidos de América.

La canción de la semana #1013

...is La Mentira y La Verdad by Cecilia Cassandra Peña-Govea, better known as La Doña. I first heard this song in the American singer's Live on KEXP performance (recorded 27 February 2026 at 25th Street Recording, Oakland, California).

Ayla Davila: vocals, bass, bass drum Camilo Landau: guitar, tres, vocals Miguel Govea: guitar, accordion, trumpet, baritone, vocals Cecilia Peña-Govea: vocals Naomi Garcia Pasmanick: maracas, sax, vocals Amanda Magaña: bongo, congas, güira, vocals Omar Ledezma: conga, caja Andre Louviere: tuba Dayron Calderon: trombone, vocals

La canción de la semana #983

Adrian Quesada's recent (30 September 2025) 'El Tiny' Desk Concert features four gorgeous boleros performed by four incredible vocalists. It was a tough choice but in the end I chose Tus Tormentas sung and played by Mireya Ramos of Flor de Toloache. This song appears on Quesada's 2022 album Boleros Psicodélicos.

Adrian Quesada: guitar Mireya Ramos: vocals, violin Joshy Soul: keys Ismael Cancel: congas, shakers Terin Ector: bass Jay Mumford: drums Kiku Enomoto: violin Andrew Griffin: viola Allison Seidner: cello

La canción de la semana #974

...is Danzón n.º 2 by Arturo Márquez, as interpreted by the great Yuja Wang.

La canción de la semana #972

Remembering the great late Eddie Palmieri (15 December 1936 — 6 August 2025) with Revolt/La Libertad Lógico, the opening track of his classic 1971 album Vamonos Pa'l Monte. Here is a solo piano version of La Libertad from Palmieri's Tiny Desk Concert (26 August 2016).

La canción de la semana #967

...is Me Retiro by Grupo Frontera and Santana!

La canción de la semana #961

...is Velacandela by Velaviee. Watch the live version of this song in the recent La Biblioteca Sessions concert.

La canción de la semana #935

...is Agua by Alba María Bita. I discovered this Granada-born, Miami-based cantaora, once again, thanks to La Biblioteca Sessions (the concert of 26 July 2024).

La canción de la semana #933

...is Palabras by Juana Luna, from the Buenos Aires-born, New York-based singer's new album Canciones en Blanco y Negro.

La canción de la semana #931

...is Que Chimbo by Carmen DeLeon. Watch the live version of this song from Carmen's La Biblioteca Sessions concert (23 February 2024).

La canción de la semana #922

...is Cha-Cha-Cha Pa'Ca by Orquesta Akokán featuring Carolina Oliveros. This song appears on the Cuban-American collective's new album Caracoles.

La canción de la semana #914

...is La Vereda by Yasser Tejeda, from the Dominican artist's latest album La Madrugá. This song was also featured on the recent Tiny Desk Concert (15 May 2024).

Mario Castro: tenor sax, keyboards Kyle Miles: bass, vocals Francis Peña: drums, maracas, vocals Yasser Tejeda: vocals, electric guitar Jonathan "Jblak" Troncoso: drums, congas, maracas, vocals

La canción de la semana #872

...is Frágil by Yahritza y su Esencia and Grupo Frontera. An alternative version of this song is closing Yahritza's recent Tiny Desk Concert.

La canción de la semana #848

...is Dear Paco (Cepa Andaluza) performed by Maureen Choi Quartet featuring Maureen Choi (violin), Mario Carrillo (double bass), Daniel García Diego (piano) and Michael Olivera (drums). This composition appears on the band's 2019 album Theia.

La canción de la semana #843

...is Tres Hermanos by Hermanos Gutiérrez featuring Dan Auerbach who, I presume, is the third brother of the title. This theme appears on the Ecuadorian-Swiss guitar duo's album El Bueno y el Malo. You can hear its two-brother version in the recent Tiny Desk Concert.

Alejandro Gutiérrez: guitar, lap steel Estevan Gutiérrez: guitar, percussion

La canción de la semana #826

From the 2022 album Alma by Germán López: La última gota de café featuring nobody else but Lila Downs!

La canción de la semana #816

...is Milonga accidental by Alisa Amador, the winning song of the 2022 Tiny Desk Contest. Sure enough, this song opens the 2022 Tiny Desk Contest Winner Concert — "the first Tiny Desk concert with an audience in over 800 days".

Alisa Amador: vocals, guitar Kristin Bakkegard: violin Nick Montopoli: violin Paul Bagley: viola Carol Anne Bosco: cello