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As we add to our "Great Americas Songbook," TPR's James Baker listens to the music of Consuelo Velasquez and María Grever. Listen to KPAC 88.3 FM each weekday at 2:00 p.m. for Momentos Musicales, during Hispanic Heritage Month.

If there were to be a "Great Americas Songbook," surely the music of João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim would be at the top of the list. KPAC's James Baker listens back in this Momentos Musicales segment to the sounds that swept America in the early 1960s.

If one wanted to draw a neatly pruned tree showing the progression of popular music in Brazil, it might begin with choro, transitioning over time into an array of dances, distinctly Brazilian. In this episode of "Momentos Musicales" KPAC's James Baker listens to the sound of the choro through the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Two Natalias bring new sounds to the Great Americas Songbook.

In this episode of Momentos Musicales, KPAC's James Baker listens to the sound of early religious music composed in the New World, and jumps ahead to the late 20th Century, when Vatican II ushered in a wave of Mass settings and more, in Spanish and Portuguese.

James Baker traces the history of the rumba and other Latin rhythms in early Broadway musicals on this episode of "Momentos Musicales" our special series for Hispanic Heritage Month on KPAC 88.3 FM.

Raven Harper is a senior at Hampton University and a summer 2021 engagement fellow at the Texas Tribune.

Izz Scott LaMagdeleine is a junior at the University of South Carolina and an engagement fellow at the Texas Tribune during the summer of 2021.

Elena Rivera is the health reporter at KERA.