Antonio Romero had waited all night in a packed arena here for the band to play his favorite song, a brassy, sultry cumbia he had danced to as a teenager in Mexico City. It had been 22 years since he ...

Installation view of Pioneros Vallenatos y Tropicales; The Story of Toño Estrada at LaPau Gallery, 2022 (courtesy LaPau Gallery, photo by Jorge Balleza) LOS ANGELES — A tiny room at the back of a ...

New York label Dutty Artz has teemed up with Songs From Home, a new imprint from the team behind Sahel Sounds, to release a compilation titled ¡Un Saludo! Mexican Soundsystem Cumbia In LA. Curated by ...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - When a group of Argentine and Mexican veterans of girl-punk bands got together two years ago to start a new group, they decided rock-and-roll had lost any outrage for them.

Celso Piña, a self-taught Mexican accordionist who turned his hometown of Monterrey into an unlikely oasis for cumbia, the Colombian dance music, then became a Latin music superstar with his fusion of ...

The Mexican Consulate in Fresno will spotlight the culture, history, flavor and rhythms of cumbia music Thursday evening at Arte Américas during a free event as part of ArtHop. Cumbia is a type of ...

The Mexican Institute of Sound (MIS), founded in 2004 by Mexico City-based DJ and record producer Camilo Lara, is a project to bring together fusions of folk and traditional music with digital ...

Celso Piña, the self-taught Mexican accordionist, singer and songwriter has died at the age of 66. Piña's record label, La Tuna Group, said in a statement on Twitter that he died Wednesday, Aug. 21 at ...