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All Latin Songs & Albums Inducted Into the National Recording Registry

From Juan Gabriel's "Amor Eterno" to Daddy Yankee's "Gasolina," here are all the Latin songs registered in the National Recording Registry.

“For musicians of any genre, having a song inducted into the National Recording Registry is a prestigious honor,” Congressman Joaquin Castro tells Billboard Español, who’s a major driving force for Latin music on the list. Released in 1990, the record was a watershed for the family band from Corpus Christi, serving notice these were the new standard bearers of Tejano, the regional music popular among second- and third-generation Texans of Mexican descent,” wrote Cary O’Dell for the Library of Congress. 1936) was a product of the many Puerto Ricans in New York, and along the East Coast, who have so closely identified with both Cuban and US jazz that have played such an important role in the crystallization of the hybrid salsa movement internationally, but especially in the Latin quarters of the United States,” wrote Steven Loza for the Library of Congress.

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