The De Los Podcast

Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Puerto Rican rapper and composer Álvaro Díaz, fresh off the release of OMAKASE — his third album, a genre-defying concept record that debuted at number one globally on Spotify and is charting in 16 Latin American countries.

Álvaro traces it all back to being a 12-year-old kid who fell in love with Blink-182, lied to a school band about owning a bass, got fired once they fo...

Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito run the Latino vibe check — inspired by a newsletter from their colleague Carlos De Loera asking a simple but loaded question: Is there any advantage to being Latino in the United States?

They start with the data. A Pew Research Center study found that one third of Latinos surveyed say their ethnicity has been a detriment to their lives — while nearly half say they remain deeply p...

Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Daniel Hernández, food editor at the Los Angeles Times and author of Down and Delirious in Mexico City, for a wide-ranging conversation about LA's culinary identity — who's cooking it, who's fighting for it, and what it says about the city's soul.

Daniel traces his path from street culture journalism to food writing, starting with the story that set everything in motion: an...

Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito go head-to-head on the state of Latino representation in Hollywood — what's winning, what's failing, and who's been getting away with both for too long.

They start with the biggest media story of the summer: Telemundo's historic World Cup win, how half of all Americans chose to watch in Spanish over Fox's English-language broadcast, and what that says about who actually understands Lati...

Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with actor and stand-up comedian Fabrizio Guido — currently starring in Netflix's Running Point — for a wide-ranging conversation about growing up all over Los Angeles, making his film debut alongside Brad Pitt in World War Z at age 12, and what it really took to build a career from child actor to leading man.

Fabrizio traces his path from community theater in East LA, to ...

Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito ditch the guest chair and go head-to-head on the state of Latin music.

They break down the year's biggest milestones: Bad Bunny's historic solo Super Bowl halftime show, Karol G becoming the first Latina to headline Coachella, and Fuerza Regida making history as the first Música Mexicana act to ever play Dodger Stadium. They dig into the numbers too — Latin music hit a billion dollars in...

For this episode of the De Los Podcast, hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Xolo Maridueña — actor, podcaster, and the first Latino to headline a live-action DC superhero film — for a wide-ranging conversation about growing up on the east side of Los Angeles, building a career from the ground up, and what it really meant to make Blue Beetle.

Born and raised in El Sereno, Xolo traces his path from commun...

For this episode of De Los Podcast, hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Sen Dog, founding member and rapper of Cypress Hill — one of the first Latino hip-hop groups to break into the American mainstream.

Born in Pinar del Río, Cuba, Sen Dog came to the U.S. as a refugee with his family, eventually settling in South Gate, Los Angeles — the very neighborhood that would give Cypress Hill its name. In this ...

Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Dominican-American singer, actress, and Latin Grammy-nominated artist Leslie Grace for a wide-ranging conversation about music, movies, and what it means to be Latino in Hollywood today.

Leslie traces her journey from recording a Christian album in her family's closet at 14, to breaking out as a bachata star alongside Romeo Santos and Prince Royce, to landing her film debut as Nina in ...

From the Los Angeles Times and Sonoro comes the De Los Podcast — a weekly conversation where music, pop culture and Latinidad collide.
Hosted by De Los editors Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito, the show pulls back the curtain on the stories, people and cultural moments shaping the Latino experience in the U.S. and beyond. Every episode is a front-row seat to conversations with the artists, actors, filmmakers and thinkers...