{"id":43899,"date":"2025-08-15T00:26:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T00:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/nino-augustine-blends-afrofusion-latin-roots-on-new-single-callaito\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T00:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T00:26:38","slug":"nino-augustine-blends-afrofusion-latin-roots-on-new-single-callaito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/nino-augustine-blends-afrofusion-latin-roots-on-new-single-callaito\/","title":{"rendered":"Nino Augustine Blends Afrofusion, Latin Roots on New Single &#8216;Callaito&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;The people who often get the spotlight don\u2019t look like me,&#8221; says the Panamanian star. &#8220;Even so, I look to the future with hope&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-latin\/nino-augustine-jossman-energia-1285177\/\">Nino Augustine<\/a> wanted to showcase his deep roots on \u201cCalla\u00edto.\u201d On Thursday, the Panamanian musician dropped his new single, which he says blends a touch of Afrobeats with Spanish lyrics and Latin sounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cFor me, being Afro-Latino means living in a constant state of fusion. I\u2019m hugely inspired by what\u2019s happening in Africa \u2014 there\u2019s an incredible creative energy \u2014 but I also can\u2019t forget the music I grew up with,\u201d he tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> in Spanish. \u201cThe most beautiful thing about being an artist is that you can create from your roots, without having to follow trends.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CALLAITO\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pMApijkLkj8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAugustine pointed to the trend of artists singing \u201cAfrobeats in Spanish,\u201d but said he\u2019s noticed a lot of other singers tapping into the culture he\u2019s long worked to represent. (Last year he dropped the amapiano track \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-latin\/nino-augustine-drops-encendido-video-1234974250\/\">Encend\u00edo<\/a>\u201d with Walshy Fire.) \u201cLike with reggaeton, after working so hard on a movement, the people who often get the spotlight don\u2019t look like me,\u201d he says. \u201cEven so, I look to the future with hope. My commitment is to stay true to who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHe adds: \u201cI represent Afrofusion in essence: a little from here, a little from there.\u201d <\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-latin\/nino-augustine-panama-new-song-activo-858295\/\">Augustine<\/a> made the song with Cuban producer Javier Sampedro Cruz, and considers it an aligned representation of his style of music. \u201cI\u2019m still that same kid from Panama in love with music, and I think that love comes through in everything we do,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cCalla\u00edto\u201d seems to be part of an upcoming project, which he\u2019s been teasing with a mirrored single artwork \u2014 for previous tracks \u201cSi Est\u00e1 Bien\u201d with Uproot Andy and \u201cTo Ca\u201d \u2014 that displays his song titles on yellow billboards on a highway. Augustine\u2019s last full project, <em>100%<\/em>, dropped last year.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-latin\/nino-augustine-drops-single-callaito-1235408114\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The people who often get the spotlight don\u2019t look like me,&#8221; says the Panamanian star. &#8220;Even so, I look to the future with hope&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":43900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}