Colombian musician Carlos “Cuco” Rojas was a master of the arpa llanera (plains harp) and other folkloric string instruments who, with his band, Cimarrón, led a recent resurgence of Colombian joropo, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Música popular colombiana — or “popular Colombian music” — made its debut with a big bang at the 2024 Billboard Latin Music awards with a performance by Luis Alfonso opening the show. The Colombian ...

When the most renowned pianist in Colombia, Teresita Gómez, came out for an unexpected solo encore at the Cartagena Music Festival at the Getsemaní Auditorium, she completely stole the show with a ...

While the mainstream often forgets, there’s a powerful and deeply ingrained tradition of Afro-Caribbean music in Colombia. From instruments like the marimba de chonta, el guasá, and el cununo to ...

José Ramírez and Victor Díaz perform a Colombian pasillo in the Classical KC studio Violist Victor Diaz and violinist Jose Ramirez stopped by the Classical KC studio to play Colombian music and to ...

Daniel Saboya on the guitarra, Lucas Saboya on the tiple and Diego Saboya on the Bandola performing at Boston University. The Trios Palos y Cuerdas Hermanos Saboya, a trio ensemble, brought Columbian ...

Unlike stereotypical teenagers, Arturo Guzman and his brother, Ricardo, didn’t reject the old-fashioned music that their parents listened to in their Southern California home. Instead, the two ...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian singer and composer Joe Arroyo, one of the leading lights of the Andean nation's music scene since the 1970s, died on Tuesday from multiple organ failure, a medical clinic ...

In western Colombia, the Petronio Alvarez festival is the big event of the summer — five days of music and food and fashion. More than 100,000 people travel from all over the world to the city of Cali ...