Santana revolutionized the scope of Chicano rock forever, incorporating blues, latin, jazz and psychedelic elements into soulful masterpieces of art for nearly four decades. Now, the Latin rock band ...

Montevideo (AFP) – As a little boy, Cesar Pintos -- now 86 -- played "drums" with his friends in the streets of Montevideo's black-majority neighborhoods, beating tin cans with twigs to ancestral ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Every Monday night in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo, hundreds gather around a table in a public square, drawn by the pulse of drums, guitars and voices carrying aloft ...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote that "human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but rather, life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves ...

On this installment of World Cafe's Latin Roots series, music producer and singer-songwriter Rachel Faro discusses an Afro-Uruguayan style of Latin music called Candombe. Separated by a river from ...