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Las Cosmos podcast becomes the go-to podcast for Latinos in Spain, marking a pivotal moment in culture

Las Cosmos Podcast has become the go-to podcast for Latinos in Spain, marking a cultural milestone.

Hosted by Nuria Net, Las Cosmos Podcast successfully concludes its first season after releasing five episodes where the journalist and entrepreneur engages with Cosmolatines who are transforming culture in Spain. From emerging artists to pioneers in the arts, each guest has shared their unique experiences of migration, identity, and creativity, highlighting the global impact of the Latin diaspora.

‘This space is for voices that break stereotypes and pave the way for future generations,’ says Nuria, who is also the creator of Las Cosmos, a platform dedicated to celebrating hybrid identities and the richness of Cosmolatine stories. Las Cosmos represents this new generation of Latinas and Latinos—Cosmolatines—who are influencing culture and defying traditional standards of ‘identity.’ The podcast has become a platform amplifying these voices and a benchmark program for Latinos in Spain.

The inaugural season of Las Cosmos podcast features interviews with prominent Cosmolatines who are an example of this generation:

  • Mela Pabón, a creative artist known for her astrology persona: Madame Mela. She reflected on creative blocks and her personal journey moving from Puerto Rico to Spain.
  • LuisLo, from the breakout band Çantamarta, shared his path from playing covers in the streets of Granada to signing with Rimas –Bad Bunny’s label– and how his Colombian, Venezuelan, and Spanish roots influence his music.
  • Rocío Quillahuaman, a creative artist born in Peru and raised in Barcelona. She explained how her anger and migrant identity have fueled her success in the world of animation.
  • Sofía “Flaca” Conti, of mixed Argentine and Basque heritage, Sofía spoke for the first time about leaving her thriving DJ career in the challenging music industry.
  • Gad Yola, a drag queen who released her first album La Travesti del Perú this year. She discussed the importance of decolonizing music, the drag scene, and the challenges of being a queer migrant child.

‘Others in the industry tell me, “I want to be you; I want to do a Flaca”’ highlighted Sofía Conti, showcasing  the deep and authentic conversations that define Las Cosmos Podcast.

A growing platform celebrating shared Cosmos stories

Las Cosmos is a vibrant space on social media (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Substack newsletter, WhatsApp group) where all diverse stories of mixed identities and the roots of each Cosmolatine are celebrated. It represents not only those who have left their homes but also those who have found new families and opportunities in distant lands. This platform showcases the richness of our shared stories, connecting people who live, work, and create in hybrid environments.

With collaborations featuring influencers and artists from the cultural scene, Las Cosmos is the ideal place to discover new talents and keep up to date on the latest in the arts.

The platform not only celebrates art but also fosters important discussions. For instance, the concept of Venequia, explored by journalist Leonor C. Suárez, opens a political dialogue about migration and identity in a viral Instagram video shared by artists such as Danny Ocean.

The platform has seen notable organic growth, connecting with audiences in Spain, the United States, and Latin America who resonate with these stories of resilience and transformation.

‘We are a new generation of global citizens. We belong here and there, and I call this generation Cosmos,’ explains Nuria. From the impact of Latin music in Spain to the rise of Latin creatives in cities like Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia, Las Cosmos highlights the role of the diaspora in shaping a new hybrid culture.

Available on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, and iVoox, Las Cosmos podcast has established itself as a reference space for Latin communities in Spain and Europe.

Global recognition and future projections

As part of its international projection, Las Cosmos was featured in Amazon Music’s Latin Podcast Month campaign, gaining visibility on social media, the Amazon Music app, and the iconic digital billboards in Times Square, New York.

Additionally, Las Cosmos organizes meetups and events in Spain to continue strengthening the Cosmolatine community, bringing creatives and dreamers together in a space where every story finds its voice.

In October, the platform held its first event at La Parcería, a renowned Latin community space in Madrid. In November, it celebrated its second successful event at Espacio Late in Malasaña, a self-managed venue run by Ibero-American journalists from Revista Late.

‘We are changing society, and telling these stories is essential,’ concludes Nuria. ‘Las Cosmos is not just a podcast; it’s a movement that celebrates the richness of our shared identities and the impact of Cosmolatines on global culture.’

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Las Cosmos podcast bonus episode – The story behind Las Cosmos and its creator, Nuria Net

How do you build a community that unites the Latin diaspora in Spain? What does it mean to be Cosmolatine? In this episode, Nuria Net, an internationally renowned journalist and podcast producer, shares her story: from her childhood between Barcelona and Puerto Rico, through New York, Miami, and Barcelona, to her current life in Madrid with her hybrid family.

Nuria discusses how her passion for storytelling, her search for identity, and her desire to create a community led her to create Las Cosmos, a space that celebrates and amplifies the Latin experience in Spain.

In its first season, Las Cosmos Podcast has become the go-to podcast for Latinos in Spain. From emerging artists to pioneers in the arts, each guest has shared their unique experiences about migration, identity, and creativity, highlighting the global impact of the Latin diaspora. Special thanks to our guests:

  • Mela Pabón, known for her character Madame Mela, with whom we discussed creative blocks and her personal journey, which also gave title to her episode “The Last Horoscope of Madame Mela.”
  • LuisLo from Çantamarta, who shared his journey from playing covers in the streets of Granada to signing with Rimas, Bad Bunny’s label, and the influence of his Colombian, Venezuelan, and Spanish roots on his music.
  • Rocío Quillahuaman, who shared how her rage and identity as a migrant have fueled her success in the animation world.
  • Sofía “Flaca” Conti, who spoke for the first time about leaving her career as a DJ in a challenging music industry.
  • Gad Yola, who discussed the importance of decolonizing music, the drag scene, and the challenges of being a queer migrant child.

As part of its international projection, Las Cosmos was featured in Amazon Music’s Latin Podcast Month campaign, gaining visibility on social media, the Amazon Music app, and the iconic digital billboards in Times Square, New York.

Additionally, Las Cosmos organizes meetups and events in Spain to further strengthen the Cosmolatine community, bringing together creatives and dreamers in a space where every story finds its voice. Las Cosmos as a platform and community continues to grow, offering information, shared stories, and Cosmos experiences through our social media on Instagram and TikTok, as well as our newsletter.

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Las Cosmos podcast Ep.5 – Gad Yola

Gad Yola (@gadyola) is a Peruvian drag artist, singer, and border-crossing activist. She migrated to Spain when she was ten years old and began her career in the world of drag after graduating from university. Being the good Cosmos representative she is, Gad is everywhere: she is known for her shows and her powerful anti-racist and anti-colonialist discourse. This year she released her first album: Travesti del Perú, a creative work that mixes art and resistance.

In this episode, Gad discusses her migrant and queer identities, drag as a fighting tool, and the importance of empathy is. She also shares the inspiration behind her first album and her vision of opening new pathways for other migrants of the Cosmos generation.

In the first season of Las Cosmos podcast, we explore Latin arts and culture in Spain, with creative Cosmolatines who are at the forefront. If you want to discover new talent and keep up with what’s happening in the cultural scene, this is your space.

🎙Created and hosted by: @nuriapuntonet.
🎧Listen on your favorite audio platform: YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Ivoox
🔗Follow us in Instagram and TikTok. You can also sign up for our newsletter and join our Telegram group.

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Las Cosmos podcast Ep.4 – Sofía “Flaca” Conti

Sofía Conti (@flacabangbang) emigrated from Argentina to San Sebastián when she was eleven years old. She went on to become the renowned DJ Flaca, a pioneer in bringing reggaeton and Latin beats to clubs such as Primavera Sound, Arenal Sound and Boiler Room and festivals in Spain. She was one of the founders of Dimelow (music sessions to dance a sensual reggaeton style known as perreo that completely broke the mold in the music scene) and CHICA (a collective group that creates safe spaces for women and the LGTBIQ community in music).

In this episode, Sofia tells us what it meant to ‘do a Flaca’ – that is, to take a step back in the music industry – and how she now lives her life as a ‘normal girl’. She also shares her hobbies, reflects on what it means to be Latina in Europe and the impact it has had on her life, and talks about her mission to see more representation and diversity of Latines in cultural spaces.

In the first season of Las Cosmos podcast, we explore Latin arts and culture in Spain, with creative Cosmolatines who are at the forefront. If you want to discover new talent and keep up with what’s happening in the cultural scene, this is your space.

🎙Created and hosted by: @nuriapuntonet.
🎧Listen on your favorite audio platform: YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Ivoox
🔗Follow us in Instagram and TikTok. You can also sign up for our newsletter and join our Telegram group.

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Las Cosmos podcast Ep.3 – Rocío Quillahuaman

Rocío Quillahuaman is an illustrator, animator and screenwriter known for the animations she shares on her social networks (@rocioquillahuaman). She was born in Lima (Peru) but does not consider herself from Lima; she grew up in Barcelona, but does not think that she is from Barcelona. She is the author of the autobiographical book Marrón (which means ‘Brown’), which, she says, she wrote so that girls like her could grow up seeing themselves reflected in others’ stories. In her animations she makes fun of the indie art and creative industries, she questions racism, and there are plenty of screams and exploding heads.

In this episode, Rocío talks about how she came to write her story and start her animation project. She also shares how she continues to explore her identity in new artworks, and how she ended up going to Shakira’s house to give her a copy of her book. 

In the first season of Las Cosmos podcast, we explore Latin arts and culture in Spain, with creative Cosmolatines who are at the forefront. If you want to discover new talent and keep up with what’s happening in the cultural scene, this is your space.

🎙Created and hosted by: @nuriapuntonet.
🎧Listen on your favorite audio platform: YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Ivoox. 
🔗Follow us in Instagram and TikTok. You can also sign up for our newsletter and join our Telegram group.

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Las Cosmos podcast Ep.2 – Luis “Luislo” Lozano

Luislo is the leader of Çantamarta, a band that makes Latin music in Spain and that blends Caribbean slang, Spanish rhythms and Latin hip-hop. Born in Caracas to Colombian parents, Luis Ángel Lozano Acosta first came to Spain to study and then began playing guitar and singing in the streets of Granada, meeting Andalusians like Omar Roldán and Benito Casado, with whom he would create Çantamarta: the first band in Europe signed to Rimas, Bad Bunny’s label.  

Luislo is a true Cosmos, at the forefront of cultural transformation in Spain. His band represents what happens when artists from different traditions come together to create music that is relevant, tasty and at the same time, socially conscious.

In the first season of Las Cosmos podcast, we explore Latin arts and culture in Spain, with creative Cosmolatines who are at the forefront. If you want to discover new talent and keep up with what’s happening in the cultural scene, this is your space.

🎙Created and hosted by @nuriapuntonet.
🎧Listen on your favorite audio platform: YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Ivoox
🔗Follow us in Instagram and TikTok. You can also sign up for our newsletter and join our Telegram group.

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Las Cosmos podcast launch makes it to Times Square

They say that Madrid is the new Miami because of the number of immigrants and the current commercial investment coming from Latin America. Latin music is also undoubtedly dominant in contemporary Spanish popular culture.

In a world that is constantly changing, where cultural boundaries become blurry and identities intertwine, Las Cosmos is born: a platform dedicated to celebrating and uniting today’s Cosmolatines, those who carry their roots with them, but who are also constantly on the move, exploring and redefining their identities in today’s society.

‘We are a new generation of global citizens. We are “de aquí y de allá”, and I call this generation ‘Cosmos’’’, says Nuria Net, creator of Las Cosmos and host of the podcast by the same name. ‘There are more and more of us Latines here and in Europe, and this is the result of decades of Latin American immigration that has changed the artistic and cultural landscape in Spain.’

Las Cosmos is a space on social networks (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Substack newsletter, Telegram) where different stories of mixed identities and the roots of each Cosmolatine are celebrated. It represents not only those who have left their homes behind, but also those who have found new families and opportunities in distant lands. This platform highlights the richness of our shared histories and connects millions of people who live, work, and create in a hybrid environment. 

The impact of Latin American migration in Spain is obvious. ‘Up-and-coming Latin American artists and creators are arriving in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia and changing culture globally, especially in music,’ says Nuria. Latin American record labels are opening new offices and studios in Spain, making it easier to create and export a vibrant culture that can be felt around the world. ‘We are changing society, and it is essential that we tell these stories’, she adds.

Las Cosmos is not just a platform; it’s a community. It provides a space for gathering, where meetups and events that revolve around the Cosmolatine universe are held. “Here you will find out everything that is happening in culture and arts made by Latines in Spain, but also meet emerging Cosmolatines and discover new projects and proposals’, explains Nuria.

To complete this initiative, Las Cosmos podcast is now available. In this biweekly videopodcast Nuria talks to Cosmolatines who are at the forefront of culture in Spain. “This space is for voices that break stereotypes and pave the way for future generations”, says Nuria. The first episodes feature artists such as Mela Pabón, and Luislo of the band Çantamarta. New episodes with more guests are being released every two weeks. This talk show is available on audio and video on  YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts and iVoox.

The launch party for Las Cosmos podcast took place on October 3rd at La Parcería in Madrid and featured a special DJ set by Mela Pabón herself, our guest in the podcast’s first episode. Nuria and Las Cosmos are also part of Amazon Music’s Latin Podcast Month campaign, with featured content on social networks, Amazon Music app and digital billboards at the heart of Times Square in New York City.

Las Cosmos represents a very powerful crossroads of art, dreams and possibilities, where every accent and story intertwine to create a shared future. “Despite our differences, there is always something that unites us as Latines and as the new generation of Cosmos in Spain, Europe, and the world”, concludes Nuria.

For more information about Las Cosmos and the podcast, click here and visit our website, follow us on Instagram and TikTok and subscribe to our newsletter.

Contact: cosmos@shakeiteasymedia.com / goldy@shakeiteasymedia.com


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Las Cosmos podcast Ep.1 – Mela Pabón

We are premiering Las Cosmos podcast with Mela Pabón (@checkinmela), a true Cosmos in every way! Mela is a multifaceted creator: writer, illustrator and comedian, known for her horoscopes and as the queen of Boricua slang.

In this episode, Mela tells us about her creative process -and creative blocks-, her wish to live in Madrid, and how she ended up submitting for a casting for First Dates. This interview is a great opportunity to get to know Mela beyond her alter egos and learn more about her new creative endeavors. 

In the first season of the Las Cosmos podcast, we explore Latine arts in Spain, featuring Las Cosmos who are at the forefront of the culture. If you want to discover new talents and keep up with what is happening in the cultural scene, this is your space.

Follow us on your favorite audio platform: YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Ivoox. You can also sign up for our newsletter.

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Manifesto Las Cosmos

We are Las Cosmos

A new generation
of hybrid identities
of citizens of the world.

We are Cosmolatines. 
We are from here and there.

We are our hybrid identities.
The doubt before answering ‘where are you from?’

We are our roots (the ones we leave behind, the ones we take with us).
We are every place where we have changed, every ground we have gone through. 
We are our countries of origin and those that welcome us.

Always on the move
we explore
we redefine
we play
we shine alone
                 and we shine together.

We are expert creators of new lives,
those of ancestral family and chosen family,
those of video calls and long distance desires,
those of nostalgia and those of looking forward. 
We are those new friends and those lifelong friends. 

Cosmolatines with our accents 
marked by the geography and the journey.
Cosmolatines, accomplices,
from the same corner of the world,
we recognize each other, we meet again,
authentic and different. 

We are a force
of art
of dreams
of possibilities
of ambitions
of reconquering.

We are everywhere.
We come from everywhere.
We are Las Cosmos. 

Translated from our original Manifiesto in Spanish.

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Las Cosmos podcast

You can now listen to – and watch – Las Cosmos Podcast!

We are thrilled to announce that we have launched the first season of our video podcast, so… you decide if you want to watch on your screen or listen on your headphones as you walk around your city. Whatever you do, Las Cosmos will be there to keep you company!

In each episode of Las Cosmos podcast, Nuria Net, founder and CEO of Shake It Easy and Cosmolatina leader in podcast production and music journalism, invites some amazing guests to talk about a broad variety of topics, ranging from their careers and milestones but also reaching out with a more personal approach.  An in-depth interview with both the artist and the person behind our Cosmolatina guest.

You can listen and watch wherever you get your podcasts: YouTubeSpotifyAmazon MusicApple Podcast.

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