Berklee Online Launches Its First Spanish-Language Music Production Course Amid Latin Music’s Global Rise Led by Bad Bunny and Karol G

For Spanish-speaking musicians, learning the craft of music production in English can feel like trying to solve two puzzles at once. That’s why Berklee Online is developing a Spanish-language version of its Music Production Fundamentals for Songwriters course: its first full 12-week offering in another language.

Music production is a natural place to start, says Rodney Alejandro, Dean of Professional Writing and Music Technology at Berklee College of Music, and one of the leaders shaping the Spanish version. “I think it’s best to start with a production course because that’s a unifier, in the sense that it doesn’t matter what language it’s in; it’s how things sound, which is universal,” he says. “The production technique is not related to the language, per se. How to explain it and teach it is, but the listening part, the outcome is still the same.”

This new Spanish-language version of Music Production Fundamentals for Songwriters is overdue, says Michael Moyes, Berklee Online’s COO and Associate Vice President of Enrollment Strategy and Marketing. “We know there’s a vibrant community of Spanish-speaking musicians who want the same high-quality, practical training Berklee Online provides, and this is one way we can better serve them.”

Latin music continues to surge in the US, growing to $1.4 billion in revenue in 2024 (8.1 percent of the total recorded music market), growing faster than the music industry overall, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Bad Bunny headlining the Super Bowl LX halftime show and Karol G closing out the final night of Coachella 2026 (both firsts for Latin artists) proves how Latin music is rapidly growing inside the music industry.

“Karol G headlining Coachella is massive, and with Bad Bunny performing the Super Bowl Halftime Show, it is further proof Latin music draws fans on a global level,” says Alejandro. “Technology has allowed the ability for people to hear music from all places, and technology has also allowed for people to compete at a world level.”

Technology has also given people in Latin American countries the opportunity to learn music from Berklee.

“Being Latino myself, having had the opportunity to travel the world and work with a diverse range of musicians, especially in the Latin culture, I’ve seen how they revere Berklee,” says Alejandro. “So my idea was, ‘We have this amazing content, we have amazing people working on the team, why don’t we translate this?’”

Alejandro promises the course will connect across cultures as well as languages.

“I think the more we make it relatable, the better it will be,” he says. “We’re going to take it and basically humanize it, put it in the language, use the idioms, use examples, find the music that fits that particular example, and in some instances, we might use both. Sometimes it’ll be a Latin example, sometimes it will still be an English-speaking example.”

Alejandro says that, as an educator, he is looking forward to sharing exchanges with a different demographic of students than he is used to.

“They’re going to come to the table with different approaches that I perhaps don’t know, because it might be unique to their region,” he says. “We’re there to facilitate and teach, and at the same time, we’re learning from what students are doing. Young people who make do out of necessity always come up with the coolest tricks!”

 Published October 21, 2025

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