{"id":25890,"date":"2025-10-29T23:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/25890\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:50:10","slug":"nude-project-brings-puerto-rican-artists-to-miamis-design-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/25890\/","title":{"rendered":"Nude Project brings Puerto Rican artists to Miami\u2019s Design District"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Under the fluorescent glow of the Miami Design District, creativity pulsed from the walls of the Paradise Plaza Building. The space \u2014 usually reserved for sleek storefronts and tourists with designer bags \u2014 had been transformed into something far more human: a pop-up playground of sound, fashion and culture courtesy of the Nude Project.<\/p>\n

The pop-up, open from Oct. 11 to 26, featured Puerto Rican artists Pink Pablo<\/a>, Matt Louis<\/a> and producer duo Slow Jamz<\/a>. Sponsored by Nocco, the night buzzed with the taste of lemon-lime and blood orange as people crowded in, ready to see what the new generation of Boricua music could sound like.<\/p>\n

Around 8 p.m., Slow Jamz took over the decks, with their set flowing like a warm current through the crowd. Puerto Rican underground hits like \u201cVitamina C\u201d by VEI HABACHE and their own track \u201cSUERTE\u201d filled the room, weaving effortlessly into Bad Bunny and Rauw Alejandro staples. The energy was electric but intimate \u2014 like being let in on a secret that the rest of the world hadn\u2019t caught up to yet.<\/p>\n

Next, Pink Pablo took the stage, diving into earlier favorites like \u201cperdimos el control\u201d and \u201cveo luces,\u201d then testing new material like \u201cME QUEDO AKI\u201d and an unreleased track called \u201cellos saben\u201d that had fans leaning forward, phones raised and faces glowing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lastly came the closer, Matt Louis, who carried himself with the calm confidence of an artist sure of where he\u2019s headed. His set unfolded like a cinematic sequence \u2014 lush, rhythmic and sensual. Songs off his latest EP \u201cGAMMA\u201d<\/a> \u2014 including \u201cKONFESSION\u201d and \u201cLUNA\u201d \u2014 moved seamlessly into his newest single, \u201cDEMBOi<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

I spoke with Matt the previous day at Billboard Latin Music Week, right after his participation in the \u201cBreaking a New Artist: Building a Career Beyond the Hype\u201d panel presented by SONAR. Still buzzing from the experience, he smiled and said, \u201cSuper feliz. Ten\u00eda muchas ganas de venir a Miami y conocer la industria como artista emergente.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Matt, Miami isn\u2019t just another stop \u2014 it\u2019s a full-circle moment. His very first trip here was years ago, at 18, to audition at La Banda, long before he met his first producers, Lara Project or connected with the creative collective LV CIUDVD, which helped him grow into the artist he is today.<\/p>\n

Outside of the studio, he draws from photography, film, clothing and reading. \u201cI listen to myself,\u201d he said, \u201cand see what images come to mind that correspond to that.\u201d It\u2019s a process that makes sense the moment you see him perform \u2014 each song feels less like a track and more like a still from a film he\u2019s directing in real time.<\/p>\n

Next up for Matt is more music, more experimentation and more exploration of his evolving sound. His latest single, \u201cDEMBOi,\u201d is already out, signaling a new phase of growth rooted in the same fearless curiosity that brought him here in the first place.<\/p>\n

And that, really, is what Billboard Latin Music Week represents. It\u2019s not just a celebration of the artists who\u2019ve made it, but a meeting point for those still defining themselves \u2014 where producers, singers and fans from across the world gather to honor what connects them all: the power of music to bring people together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Screenshot Under the fluorescent glow of the Miami Design District, creativity pulsed from the walls of the Paradise…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-25890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}