An acoustic folk music developed by his enslaved ancestors along Colombia's Pacific coast helped to keep John Jairo Cortez on the straight and narrow. While growing up in the crime-ridden town of ...

Champeta music is rooted in African and Afro-Colombian music and is the core of Palenque Records. For this week’s Global Notes segment, Silva joins us to discuss the historical and cultural importance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo illustration by Diana Ramirez / De Los; photos by Claudio Cruz/ Associated Press) Colombian folk music icon Totó La ...

Jordan Salama | Author of Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena Carlos Vives performed onstage during the world premiere of Walt Disney Animation Studios' Encanto at El Capitan ...

Daniel Saboya on the guitarra, Lucas Saboya on the tiple and Diego Saboya on the Bandola performing at Boston University. The Trios Palos y Cuerdas Hermanos Saboya, a trio ensemble, brought Columbian ...

Unlike stereotypical teenagers, Arturo Guzman and his brother, Ricardo, didn’t reject the old-fashioned music that their parents listened to in their Southern California home. Instead, the two ...

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Colombia is known to musicians as "the land of a thousand rhythms." Home to a diverse set of Latin American folk genres, today Colombian musicians are fusing their roots with pop, jazz and rock.

Richard Blair put his trust in the beats and the rewards are self-evident in Sidestepper, his collaboration with Colombian musician/producer Iván Benavides, and their recent album 3 a.m. (In Beats We ...

When he began working on the music for Disney’s animated film Encanto five years ago, Lin-Manuel Miranda admits he didn’t know all that much about Colombian music. “I had a beginner’s understanding, ...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian folk music legend Rafael Escalona, whose songs derived from life in his rural province have inspired modern-day singers, died on Wednesday of heart complications in a ...