Sony Music Group Celebrates Hispanic Latin Heritage Month ’23
Oct 16, 2023
Throughout Hispanic Latin Heritage Month, Sony Music Group proudly embraced this 12 months’s nationwide theme “Driving Prosperity, Energy, and Progress in America.” Our nation’s financial system, tradition, delicacies, leisure and a lot extra are tremendously influenced by the various contributions and strides made by the Hispanic Latin group.
We celebrated and honored the Hispanic Latin group by way of programming and occasions designed to acknowledge their versatility and broad cultural affect.
Highlights from Our Hispanic Latin Heritage Month Celebration
We kicked off our recognition for the month with a management improvement workshop that includes visitor speaker Refugio Atilano—an creator and profession mentor/coach for Latino professionals. All through the workshop, he imparted actionable abilities for enhancing affect and worth throughout the skilled group. Hyperlinks to the digital launch of his ebook, The Latino Management Playbook, had been additionally shared with attendees as soon as the occasion concluded.
Atilano mentioned matters starting from advocating for your self within the office to sensible steering for the way non-Hispanic or non-Latin staff can assist their Hispanic and Latin colleagues. As well as, he gave a listing of motion objects to assist deliver the ideas he lined to life, like following the free templates discovered on his web site concerning private improvement and activating a Latino Management Membership the place staff can focus on matters that help in altering the paradigm throughout the office. As a closing assertion, he relayed this recommendation to members:
“If we need to transfer the needle on illustration … if we’re all severe about it … take these steps. Maintain your self accountable and drive your self ahead.”
Later within the month, we held a particular class to assist grasp the artwork of Reggaeton motion with dance performer and teacher, Sofía Dallal. Reggaeton is among the hottest dance types originating from Latin America. Born in Panama and popularized in Puerto Rico, it has traveled throughout the area and the globe. Evolving from dancehall and influenced by U.S. hip-hop, Latin American and Caribbean music, it’s a vibrant fusion.
Dallal described her expertise with the crew at Sony Music as being each “snug and blissful” as she was in an area “with folks desirous about attending to know extra about…Latin tradition.” She defined that “everyone had superb vitality” and had been “targeted on getting the steps” whereas concurrently preserving it “mild and tremendous enjoyable.”
To conclude the celebrations of Hispanic Latin Heritage Month, we held a mixer in our New York Metropolis workplace with particular visitor—and Sony Music Latin singer and songwriter Beéle. Beéle infused the environment with sounds from Colombia by way of his efficiency.
A particular thanks to all of the SMG staff who participated and attended our Hispanic Latin Heritage Month occasions and actions. Enormous shoutout to Refugio Atilano, Sofía Dallal, and Beéle for on a regular basis and energy they contributed. And thanks to SOMOS—a Sony Music Group Expertise Advisory Group—for serving to host this month’s occasions and making it such a memorable one.
Our Ongoing Efforts to Help the Hispanic Latin Group
In honor of Hispanic Latin Heritage Month, Sony Music Group, alongside SOMOS, supported causes essential to the Hispanic Latin group, together with these listed under:
Hispanic Unity Of Florida Inc.: Empowering immigrants and others to grow to be self-sufficient, productive and civically engaged.
UnidosUS: UnidosUS (previously Nationwide Council of La Raza)—the most important nationwide Hispanic civil rights and advocacy group in the US—works to construct a stronger America by creating alternatives for Latinos.
Maestro Cares Basis: Maestro Cares Basis improves the standard of lifetime of deprived youngsters and communities in Latin America and the US. We accomplish that by offering housing, instructional programming and the important assets to assist their development and improvement.
Latin Grammy Cultural Basis: To additional worldwide consciousness and appreciation of the numerous contributions of Latin music and its makers to the world’s tradition by way of faculty scholarships, grants and academic applications.
