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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Performing at this year’s Festival International, Kombilesa Mi fuses traditional Colombian beats with the Afro influence of the Palenque culture. Hailing from San Basilio de ...

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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...