The vibrant, ubiquitous sound of cumbia is one that we Angelenos should all be familiar with. Born in the barrios of Colombia in the 1950s, the origins of cumbia can be traced back even further to the ...

WASHINGTON — Celso Piña, a self-taught Mexican accordionist who turned his hometown of Monterrey into an unlikely oasis for cumbia, the Colombian dance music, then became a Latin music superstar with ...

With the male gaita, a Colombian reed flute, in his left hand, Kiko Villamizar beckons the drummers with an airy looping riff. The male gaita’s job is to ground —to “hold the seeds of the group in the ...

When I heard someone on NPR say cumbia was “the musical backbone of Latin America,” I almost crashed my car into a light post. “You wish!” I thought. Then, after veering out of trouble and cooling off ...

The Barranquero, or Andean motmot, is an early-rising bird that lives in the Colombian mountains and vocalizes with severe and profound claims that move other birds to start their day. Kiko Villamizar ...

Celebrating the 198th anniversary of Colombia's independence, members of the local Colombian community gathered July 20 at the New Orleans Museum of Art, where Spanish and Latin music filled the air ...

Being able to dance to Latin music in venues around North Texas wouldn’t be possible without the performers providing the sounds. Latin artists of all ages and backgrounds are playing everything from ...

New York, New York, came alive this summer and fall with Colombian cumbia music in Brooklyn bars, concert halls, and even the great Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), reported newspaper El Espectador ...