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Today we are here with Congressman Castro.
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Thank you so much for joining us,
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Congressman. Thank you.
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Yeah, good to be with you all.
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I know you work on your yearly list for the National Recording
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Registry. Can you explain that for me?
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I actually have no idea what it is.
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I want, I want to know.
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Yeah. Well, so the National Recording Registry was created by
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the Lib Library of Congress around the year 2000.
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And it's, it is for music,
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what the National Film Registry is for film,
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which is a celebration of the most important,
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culturally impactful music in American history.
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And so you can imagine there are songs from all sorts of
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genres and varieties of music.
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But I think there's like 600 maybe like 650 entries or songs
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songs and albums that have been inducted because it could be
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But only about 5% of those are by Latino artists.
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so it's like a really low number considering a few things like
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there were 20% of the country.
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you see today when you look at bad bunny and like all
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these artists who are just topping the charts on Spotify,
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you see how impactful our music has been over the years,
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but it hasn't gotten the recognition in prestigious things like the
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National Recording Registry. Definitely.
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And so I was curious,
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like how our songs selected,
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like, is there a formula?
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How do we get them in there every year for the last
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three years? I put a call out to people just
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the public and ask for submissions.
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And then we go through these hundreds of suggestions and we'll
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submit between 25 and,
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you know, 30 songs or so.
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And then they have actually a whole board of people who will
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then like go through each,
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each thing that's been submitted and people you don't have to come
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through me either. Like the public can submit on their own
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too, but it's got to be a song that's at least
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a song or an album that's at least 10 years old.
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like, there's a lot of bad bunny hits from last year
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They don't qualify yet,
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Peso Puma, you know,
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so when we, when we get to like nine years from
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now, he'll be like right there for consideration,
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an induction into the National Recording Registry is like incredibly prestigious for
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I mean, this is something that you literally would put in
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somebody's obituary that they got a song or an album into the
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recording registry. Can we guess what la all songs or albums
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have made it on so far?
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Like we'll list them out and you tell us yes or no
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I'd have to go back and look at the list myself because
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they're not all etched in my brain.
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But we got in the first reggaeton song,
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Gasolina. I think everybody knows Gasol.
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We got that one in we got in El Cantante
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by Hector Lavoe or actually we had nominated Hector Lavoe and then
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that the board chose El Cantante.
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So those were some of the ones that came from our
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list. D How about Suave?
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Suave? I don't think Suave is in there.
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Double check. And if it's not,
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we'll recommend it Selena on there.
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Selena. Yeah, she is.
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Yeah, like we've got her also helped get the movie into
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the National Film registry.
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So the music is some of the music is there and then
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we help get the film into the film registry.
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when we can submit more.
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We're down to give like a whole list.
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Well, we're taking missions for,
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I guess probably about another 10 days or so.
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And then by September 1st,
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we gotta, we gotta turn over our list to the
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Library of Congress. Awesome.
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So how can we make sure that some of these bangers,
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you know, get nominated for the registry,
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you said until the first.
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Yeah, the eas thing is to go to our website
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what in Gospel Congress,
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you'll see my official website and then we have a link where
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you can make submissions to us or like any member of the
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public. You can go to the Library of Congress,
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you type type in national recording registry and give them your own
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list, create your own list or suggest your own song or
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album. We should take a minute to make sure that Latino
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artists are recognized for their excellence and their contributions to music in
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Congressman. We appreciate you having me on the show and explaining
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more on, you know what these registries are all about.
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Where can people follow you?
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Joaquin Castro TX on X on Instagram,
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on the different social media and of course on Facebook,
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Joaquin Castro. Thanks so much for your time again.
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Thank you. Nice talking to you.
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Good to see you take care.
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