Indian and Latin American musicians have come together on Muévete, a new pop collaboration from IndiLat featuring Venezuelan singer Maleh and rapper Akapellah. The track has been released worldwide through Universal Music India.
IndiLat is made up of Indian producers Siddhant Bhatia and Raghav Mehta, Chilean producer Cristóbal “Tibo” Gajardo and Venezuelan producer Raniero Palm. The project brings together musicians and producers from India, Chile and Venezuela, with the wider team including Grammy winners and nominees.
The track moves between Indian and Latin American musical elements, opening with konnakol before bringing in sitar, tabla, Latin percussion, guitars, drums and Venezuelan horns. Spanish is the primary language, while a Sanskrit invocation to Ganesha also features in the song.
Production is credited to Siddhant Bhatia, Raghav Mehta, Cristóbal “Tibo” Gajardo, Raniero Palm and Devraj Sanyal. Mallika Thakkar, Sakshi Gurnani and Palm are Executive Producers, with Eduardo Martínez handling the mix.
For Universal Music India, the project also reflects a growing interest in collaborations that connect Indian artists and creators with international music markets. Rather than positioning the track simply as an Indian-Latin fusion release, the collaboration has been built across multiple territories and creative teams.
That distinction is relevant as Indian music companies look beyond domestic audiences. International collaborations are increasingly becoming a way for Indian artists and producers to develop relationships with musicians, producers and audiences in markets outside the traditional US, UK and South Asian circuits.
There is also a broader industry question around how such collaborations develop beyond a single release. The value of projects like Muévete will ultimately depend on whether they lead to further songwriting, production, touring and market opportunities between the participating regions.
For IndiLat, the track is intended as the first step in developing a musical project around Indian and Latin American creative exchange.
Muévete is interesting less because it is being presented as a meeting of two cultures and more because of who is doing the meeting. Indian music companies have spent years looking towards Western markets for international collaborations. Latin America offers another sizeable and increasingly global music ecosystem, but remains a less developed connection for much of India’s recorded music industry.
The bigger opportunity here is in building repeatable networks rather than one-off collaborations. If Indian producers, artists and labels can develop sustained relationships with Latin American counterparts, the impact could extend into publishing, songwriting camps, touring and repertoire development. For that to happen, however, collaborations need to be supported by actual market-building and artist development, rather than stopping at the release itself.
