Felix Contreras
Felix Contreras is co-creator and co-host of Alt.Latino, NPR's pioneering radio show and podcast celebrating Latin music and culture since 2010 and a curator for the acclaimed Tiny Desk Concert series.
A knowledgeable international ambassador for Latino heritage and arts, "Tio Felix" travels extensively in search of new talent and new music and captures important legacy performers in jazz and Latin genres. He appears regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazines, All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Various national and international publications have quoted his expertise on the contemporary influences of Latin culture, music, and media.
He's a recovering TV journalist whose first post at NPR in 2001 was as a Producer/Reporter for the NPR News Arts Desk.
He is also the other NPR Music resident Deadhead and an Afro Caribbean percussionist who performs around the DC area with various jazz and Latin jazz bands.
- The Latin Grammy nominations reflect the rise of folk music
- Readers tell us how they became Deadheads
- Grateful Dead fans tell NPR how the band first hooked them
- How Jim James and Jeff Tweedy learned to love the Grateful Dead
- Why Andy Cohen is a Deadhead for life
- For Grateful Dead devotees, the 'Days Between' honor the lessons the band taught
- The keepers of the Grateful Dead's history
- The Ripple Effect