This project explores how musical performance functions as a key practice in shaping identity, emotional belonging, and community building among Spanish-speaking Latin American migrants in Berlin. Drawing from an ongoing ethnographic fieldwork approach, the research engages with the practices, discourses, and networks that emerge around so-called “Latin” music events, such as concerts, dance parties, and cultural festivals, which have become increasingly visible across the city in recent years. Far from being solely entertainment spaces, these performative events operate as affective and political arenas where meanings around “Latinidad” are negotiated and where migrant subjects navigate their diasporic condition. By focusing on the cultural actors who organize and perform in these events, i.e. musicians, DJs, and cultural promoters, the project examines how music becomes a site for expressing collective memory, negotiating transnational connections, and challenging or reproducing existing inequalities. The research examines how these events allow participants to navigate their positionalities as migrants through shared emotional experiences and cultural codes. It also asks how access to organizing and participating in such spaces is shaped by intersecting factors such as gender, legal status, and class. Particular attention is given to the aesthetic and discursive dimensions of musical practices, including the use of social media as a promotional and identity-making tool. Methodologically, the project combines participant observation in live events, semi-structured interviews with key actors in the scene, and discourse analysis of digital content of event promotions, with a focus on events within the salsa and urban Latin music scenes. Drawing on intersectional theory, migration studies, and the anthropology of emotions and performance, the research argues that musical practices serve not only as cultural expression but also as infrastructure for diasporic community-making. Ultimately, the paper seeks to contribute to broader conversations about the cultural agency of migrants in urban Europe, highlighting how affective and artistic practices challenge dominant narratives of integration and national belonging. It reflects on the complexities and internal exclusions within the “Latino” category, emphasizing the need for nuanced, grounded approaches to diasporic identity formation.