Turn Up the Music! “Rockolandia Las Cabritas” Is Ready to Get the World Dancing

Get ready to turn up the music, because seven little goats from Puerto Rico are preparing to make the world dance.

With rock and roll, reggaeton and plenty of Latin rhythms keeping the beat, “Rockolandia Las Cabritas” has already found quite the audience online. Now the award-winning Puerto Rican preschool series is getting ready to take its next big step as Siesta Entertainment brings the musical property to MIPCOM in search of new television, streaming and digital distribution partners around the world.

And these little goats aren’t exactly arriving quietly.

“Rockolandia Las Cabritas” already has more than 170 million cumulative views on YouTube, 234,000 subscribers and a community of more than 250,000 followers across platforms. The series has also received four Suncoast Emmy Awards and earned a YouTube Silver Play Button, giving it an established audience before its latest international push even begins.

Created for children ages 4 to 6, the series follows seven little goats who spend their adventures singing, dancing and working together to stop the latest plans of a rather clumsy Big Bad Wolf.

Apparently some fairy-tale rivalries never completely disappear.

But this isn’t quite the wolf-and-goats story you might remember.

Each self-contained adventure mixes music and humor with themes surrounding family, friendship and self-confidence, giving its young heroes plenty of opportunities to solve problems together between songs. The first season consists of ten 11-minute episodes in Spanish, with every episode featuring two original songs.

Those songs are a particularly important part of what makes “Rockolandia” stand apart.

Rather than treating its Puerto Rican identity as something sitting quietly in the background, the series brings that culture directly into its sound and personality. Rock and roll can lead into reggaeton and other Latin rhythms as Las Cabritas turn their adventures into something children can sing and move along with.

And now that beat is looking to travel considerably farther.

Siesta Entertainment’s initial focus for international expansion will be the Hispanic market across the United States, Puerto Rico, Latin America and Spain before supporting the property’s move into additional markets around the world. The company will present “Rockolandia Las Cabritas” to international buyers at MIPCOM through its distribution agreement with Dakiti Productions, the Puerto Rican company behind the property.

There is also considerably more music planned if those doors continue to open.

While the existing first season provides ten episodes, plans for the coming months include moving forward with development on a much larger second season consisting of 26 11-minute episodes. KaizenPop, a shareholder in Dakiti Productions, co-manages the brand alongside Cristina Carrión and is co-producing Season 2, with Ailing Zubizarreta serving as co-showrunner.

But “Rockolandia” itself actually stretches back much further than its current digital success.

According to co-creator and showrunner Cristina Carrión, the property was originally created by her family during the 1980s for audiences in Puerto Rico before being revived for a new generation. That gives its current international ambitions an especially interesting full-circle quality: a locally created Puerto Rican property has returned decades later, found millions of views in the digital era and is now preparing to introduce its music and characters to children far beyond where it began.

And there may not be a better moment for it.

Children’s entertainment has become increasingly capable of crossing languages, platforms and borders, particularly when music is involved. “Rockolandia Las Cabritas” is heading into that landscape with something it doesn’t have to manufacture for an international pitch: its own identity.

These are seven Puerto Rican little goats with a Big Bad Wolf problem, a lot of music and apparently absolutely no intention of standing still.

With MIPCOM serving as their next stage, Siesta Entertainment and the team behind “Rockolandia Las Cabritas” are hoping the series’ existing digital audience is only the beginning.

So turn up the volume.

Las Cabritas are ready to take their Latin heart around the world.

And they would very much like you to dance along.