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Sony Music Latin launched a group of diversity and inclusion task forces, while Universal Music Brazil partnered with label TS Vox to produce an upcoming series of conversations focusing on the country's Black community; UMB will also release new music created under the project's auspices. Pandora launched new stations Afro Colombia, Afro Boricua and Afro Cuba in July, but Marco Juarez, the platform's head of Latin music, says labels and distributors have mostly been interested in highlighting catalogs of legacy Afro-Latino artists, not promoting new voices. MANAGEMENT FABIO ACOSTA Founder, Vibras Lab J Balvin, whom Acosta со-manages with Scooter Braun, continued his Latin music global evangelism, appearing alongside Jennifer Lopez and Shakira at the Super Bowl LIV halftime show, sending a ninth video into YouTube's Billion Views Club with his appearance on Jhay Cortez's "No Me Conoce (Remix)" and scoring his ninth No. 1 on Hot Latin Songs with "Un Dia" (with Dua Lipa, Bad Bunny and Tainy). FERNANDO GIACCARDI Vp Latin entertainment/senior manager, Red Light Management In August, Giaccardi's longtime client Enrique Iglesias was featured on Anuel AA's "Fútbol у Rumba" - it was the artist's 31st No. 1 on the Latin Airplay chart, having posted his first hit in 1995.