When ChocQuibTown –the seminal Colombian trio that fuses hip hop with Colombian rhythms and beats from the Pacific Coast — took a break late in 2022, co-founder Tostao decided to go back to his roots.

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 is known to musicians as "the land of a thousand rhythms." Home to a diverse set of Latin American folk genres, today Colombian musicians are fusing their roots with pop, jazz and rock.

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 ...

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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 ...

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - The crowd roared as Colombian music legend Diomedes Diaz took the stage for his first performance since his parole from prison. "He's my hero," one of the faithful, Alvaro Lejia, ...

The song opens with a man’s guttural chant punctuated by the high notes of an indigenous Colombian flute known as a gaita. In between, there’s a thumping African drum. And layered on top is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...