Vallenato, traditional music from Colombia, was immortalized in One Hundred Years Of Solitude and popularized by superstar singer Carlos Vives.... In Colombia, Preserving Songs That Tell Stories ...

Colombia has the biggest Black population in a Spanish-speaking country. Despite this, Afro-Colombian music and backgrounds are not well-documented in American society, according to Boston University ...

STAMFORD — The Roxbury Arts Group will present a concert of Colombian folk music with Fabián Gallón and Diego Bahamón Serrato at Headwaters Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 12. According to a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Martin Selasco believes the masks he and his bandmates wear in the Seattle-based electronic project Terror/Cactus have transformative power, helping everyone involved lose themselves in the music and ...

An explosion of Colombian culture in the form of music, song and stylized folk dance burst forth onto UB's Center for the Arts' Mainstage Theatre Tuesday night in Ballet Folklorico De Antioquia, ...

Carlos Vives, who won a Grammy for the best traditional tropical Latin album, said the award "gives Colombian music the recognition it deserves." In a television interview, Vives said many believed ...

Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez once said that One Hundred Years of Solitude was a 400-page Vallenato: a traditional music of Colombia's Caribbean coast. The songs are mini-epics, filled with ...