Afro-Peruvian music pioneer Susana Baca has always been the kind of artist who performs better in front of a crowd. Knowing this, she, producer Craig Street, and the folks at Luaka Bop Records… By ...

Susana Esther Baca de la Colina (born Chorrillos, Lima Province, Peru, 1944) is a prominent Peruvian singer-songwriter; two-times Latin Grammy Award winner. She has been a key figure in the revival of ...

LIMALIMA — La cantante peruana Susana Baca está internada en la unidad de cuidados intensivos de un hospital de la seguridad social de Lima, informó su esposo el jueves. “Susanita está muy delicada, ...

From Sept. 15 through Oct. 15, Tiny Desk is celebrating Latinx Heritage Month with an El Tiny takeover, featuring Jessie Reyez, Girl Ultra and more musicians from all corners of Latinidad. At the ...

In her 50th year in the business, the great Peruvian singer looks forward and back with equal aplomb Andean pipes aside, Peru has several musical guises; noisy, loping cumbia, twanging Amazonian ...

The students at the Peruvian elementary school serenade Susana Baca. One girl recites a paean to Baca, and five other children tap a complex rhythm on boxes known as cajones, a legacy of Africans ...

In her 50-year career, Baca has been a singer, ethnomusicologist and Peru’s minister of culture. As she releases her 16th album, she reveals why her work is as vital as it has ever been Susana Baca ...

Teacher, folklorist, three-time Latin Grammy winner, and a former Minister of Culture in her native Peru, Susana Baca heralds the revival of Afro-Peruvian music. Baca’s forthcoming album “Palabras ...