Raul Malo Sings Louder Than Borders: How One Cuban-American Crooner Became the World’s Smuggler of Sorrow
Raul Malo’s Chords Are Louder Than Your Passport: A Dispatch from the Borderless Republic of Melancholy By “Border” we mean the imaginary line your streaming algorithm draws between “Americana” and “Bolero,” a line as flimsy as wet Kleenex in a Category-5 tweetstorm. If you’ve never heard of Raúl Francisco Martínez-Malo Jr.—the Cuban-American baritone who fronts…