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 ...

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 ...

The picture of Colombia drawn from the news is of a country at war with itself. Here is a place where every aspect of everyday life appears poisoned by drug money, where old grievances have a way of ...

With a versatile vocal range, rippling guitar solos, and hints of Colombia’s folkloric music, Juanes combines the shimmering epic underpinnings of U2 and the hard-driving metal of Metallica with more ...

Unidad Deportiva Alberto Galindo, a sports complex in Cali, Colombia, is home to what is affectionately called "El Petronio." For the last 27 years, hundreds of thousands of people have traveled to ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Jacqueline Nova created forward-thinking, often transgressive electroacoustic music in the 1960s. New releases are helping put her back on the map. The composer Jacqueline Nova, ...

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 ...