INTRODUCTION: Music Goes Global
From Kingston to Cape Town, from New Delhi to New York, musicians are rocking old traditions. Your world will never be the same

FROM THE EDITOR: Planet Pop

LATIN AMERICA
Marc Anthony
Making salsa into all-American music

Thalia
Poised to cross the U.S. border

Hidden Havana The Buena Vista Social Club is yesterday. The streets of Cuba's cities today are moving to a younger rhythm

Shakira
A Colombian star who's ready to rock the world

Moreno Veloso
A second-generation iconoclast from Brazil

Max de Castro
Brazil's hottest young singer-songwriter

Wyclef Jean on Haiti

NORTH AMERICA
Jive Records
The label with a lock on the mass market

Best Bands
Our picks for the greatest groups on earth. Do you agree?

The Scariest Label
From West Virginia, the sound of hate

Christina Aguilera
Teen pop is dead. Just ask its queen

Internet Radio
Tune in to the planet via the Internet

The Next Napsters
Free music lives! Say hello to Morpheus

Dr. Dre
He made Eminem. He can make you

Nelly Furtado
Like a song bird

The Strokes

Beastie Boys' Mike D on NYC

Dre, From Outkast on Atlanta

EUROPE
Bjork
That dress. That voice. Those elves

Garbage's Shirley Manson on Scotland

Q&A With Manson

U2 & Bono
Still the biggest band in the world. Still talking politics

Cristina Branco
Portugal's chanteuse is fanning the fado flame

Badmarsh & Shri
The new British sound isn't tea and crumpets

ASIA
Utada Hikaru
She's only a freshman. She's already a diva

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Genre
Lights! Action! Cantopop!

No Notes Allowed
Inside a country where music is banned

Ngawang Choephel
He tried to save music. He may die for it

Mamoru Samuragoch
Japan's deaf video-game composer

Jackie Chan on Hong Kong

OOIOO
Canine-inspired music makers

AFRICA
Brenda Fassie
Meet the Madonna of South Africa

Get Up, Stand Up
Searching for the next Bob Marley

Tarika
Madagascar's irrepressible traditional band

Dave Matthews
America's No. 1 rocker on his African roots

Youssou N'Dour on Dakar, Senegal