{"id":397134,"date":"2026-07-13T22:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/397134\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:44:08","slug":"nathy-peluso-has-always-been-a-salsera-hollywood-bowl-show-confirms-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/397134\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathy Peluso has always been a salsera; Hollywood Bowl show confirms it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last March, the L.A. Times had proclaimed that Nathy Peluso had found her musical language<\/a>. Later that year, the Argentine singer decided to mix things up by releasing her 2025 EP, \u201cMalportada.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a departure from her urbano and alternative leanings blended with notes of R&B, the six-song EP was a straightforward, traditional salsa offering that featured a collaboration with Venezuelan salsa hybrid band Rawayana<\/a> on the title track.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy experience being a woman and making music has always been to talk about my freedom [and] how I feel,\u201d she told The Times in a recent interview inside the famous Amoeba Music record store in Hollywood. \u201cSalsa seems to me like a stage that invites one to express themselves fully, speak loudly, dance freely and feel powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peluso had previously dabbled in the salsa genre with tracks like 2020\u2019s \u201cPuro Veneno,\u201d 2021\u2019s \u201cMafiosa\u201d and the 2025 salsa er\u00f3tica tune \u201cErotika,\u201d but had never dedicated an entire project to the Caribbean musical styling. <\/p>\n

The pivot by the 31-year-old artist was especially bold as she had previously been accused of cultural appropriation<\/a> for recording salsa tunes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s [my] function in society,\u201d Peluso previously told The Times in a 2025 interview<\/a> when asked about the criticism of her salsa jams. \u201cI\u2019m not the kind of artist who\u2019s complacent or politically correct. I don\u2019t do anything with the intention of pleasing others. I chose the mission of bringing salsa back to the present because I\u2019m passionate about it. If a genre gives me so many wonderful sensations, I want everybody else to feel them as well. As long as people argue, they will have to listen to the songs \u2014 and as a result, they will listen to salsa.\u201d <\/p>\n

Peluso\u2019s gamble paid off \u2014 as \u201cMalportada\u201d was so well-received by critics, fans and the wider salsa community that she managed to get herself booked as the co-headliner for the Hollywood Bowl\u2019s upcoming Salsa Spectacular<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Over the last few years, salsa music has enjoyed a bit of a renaissance<\/a> \u2014 thanks in part to the success of Bad Bunny\u2019s universally acclaimed album \u201cDeb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos\u201d<\/a> \u2014 which featured the salsa fusion hits \u201cBaile Inolvidable\u201d and \u201cNuevayol\u201d \u2014 and Rauw Alejandro\u2019s 2024 LP \u201cCosa Nuestra<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n

But for Peluso, her integration into the salsa world was a long time coming.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up listening to Gloria Estefan, I fell in love with [the 2000 album] \u2018Alma Caribe\u00f1a,\u2019 I fell in love with the richness of that music,\u201d said Peluso. \u201cI\u2019ve had a strong relationship with salsa music since I was young, even though I didn\u2019t grew up in a place that was a cradle for that genre.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peluso was born in the Argentine city of Luj\u00e1n and lived there until she was 9, when her family moved to Spain, eventually settling in the southeastern city of Alicante. <\/p>\n

In addition to Estefan, she cited inspiration from Nuyorican percussionist Ray Barretto, Puerto Rican salsa orchestra El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico and genre icons H\u00e9ctor Lavoe and Willie Col\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

\"Argentine <\/p>\n

(Ronaldo Bolanos \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

\u201cThroughout my career, I\u2019ve always flirted with the genre,\u201d Peluso said. \u201cAfter doing the press for [the 2024 album] \u2018Grasa\u2019 there reached a point where I realized I was ready to make my salsa record, and it just happened to coincide with the current salsa boom.\u201d<\/p>\n

While paying respect to the musical tradition, Peluso also imbued her spin on the genre with some of the swaggering feminine energy often found in urbano music \u2014 as is evidenced in the \u201cMalportada\u201d track \u201cA Caballo.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up listening to a lot of masculine salsa and I thought it would be interesting to approach that type of energy from a woman\u2019s perspective,\u201d she explained. \u201c[To take] all these stories of danger and sex and desire that the genre is known for, but give them a feminine spin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peluso further bolstered her salsa bona fides when she teamed up with a pair of Caribbean music legends over the last year. <\/p>\n

In September, she collaborated with her idol Estefan for a remix of the 1993 track \u201cChirriqui Chirri.\u201d The duo performed the explosive song at the 2025 Latin Grammy Awards show<\/a>. In February, Peluso jumped in the studio with Puerto Rican salsero Marc Anthony to record the original track \u201cComo en el Idilio<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was so awesome to sing with [Anthony] because he is one of the all-time legends we have in salsa who expanded the genre worldwide,\u201d Peluso said. \u201cIt was a blessing to sing with Marc and Gloria in this moment of my career in which I\u2019ve decided to represent salsa from my point of view.\u201d<\/p>\n

For her Hollywood Bowl gig, Peluso will be accompanied by the Colombian salsa collective Grupo Niche, a Grammy- and Latin Grammy-winning group that has been around since the late \u201970s.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve admired Grupo Niche for years,\u201d Peluso said. \u201cWe met at the Latin Grammys a few years ago and really hit it off. A little while back, when I was offered to do the Hollywood Bowl show alongside them, it was a no-brainer.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the biggest honor that Peluso is looking forward to is playing the hallowed stage of the Hollywood Bowl.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like playing in a palace for me,\u201d she said of the historic venue. \u201cThe last time I was in L.A. for the \u2018Grasa\u2019 tour, I left wanting more. I knew I\u2019d have to waiting until my next tour to try it, but I didn\u2019t expect my next tour to come so quickly. It\u2019s such a mythical place, it\u2019s such a luxury.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last March, the L.A. Times had proclaimed that Nathy Peluso had found her musical language. Later that year,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[23983,90101,159552,24819,48,52,51,53955,47,50,49,159553,330,159550,1417,159551,159554,16503,2829,159555,1557],"class_list":["post-397134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-album","tag-gloria-estefan","tag-hollywood-bowl-show","tag-l-a-times","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-last-few-year","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-malportada","tag-music","tag-nathy-peluso","tag-point","tag-salsa-genre","tag-salsa-spectacular","tag-spin","tag-track","tag-urbano","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}