Since then, Parra has recorded four albums of Colombian Andean music with his quintet. And, to this day, Parra is following ...

I’ve learned a lot from my friend and musical colleague Betto Arcos over the years, and yesterday I learned even more. This time the subject was the music of Colombia, from which he’d recently ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A historic moment occurred in Colombia in late 2024 when Heredero (real name Féizar Orjuela), the carranga music artist, achieved ...

Drums sounded throughout the Go-Go Museum in Washington, DC as bands Colombia Negra and Black Alley conversed in a rhythmic, diaspora dialogue through Colombian and Go-Go music. The cultural exchange, ...

Carlos Vives stops himself in mid-sentence and apologizes. He chokes up, overcome by a rush of the same raw, vulnerable emotion that informs his anthemic songs. Tears stream down his face — but ...

The music community is mourning one of their own. Yeison Jiménez, a Colombian singer-songwriter of música popular—a genre that blends traditional Mexican ranchera music with Colombian roots—has died ...

In 2011, researchers for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival traveled to the Orinoco Plains of Colombia. Their van broke down, leading to an unplanned performance of improvised trovas verses in the ...

HYBE Latin America has partnered with the Colombian music mecca of Medellín through a strategic partnership with the City’s Youth Secretariat, Variety can exclusively confirm. Together, they ...