Grupo Frontera vocalist Payo Solis remembers the days when he’d pull out of his Rio Grande Valley, Texas high school parking lot, driving his mamalona (massive pickup track) and blasting music by his ...

Local supergroup embodies the San Diego-Tijuana region with a fresh cumbia sound and danceable songs in a forthcoming new album. In the latest installment of our KPBS Summer Music Series, we feature a ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In rotation: ‘The Original Sound of Cumbia: The History of Colombian ...

Dancers at a sound system event.(Photo Livia Radwanski.) Australian producer Moses Iten fell in love with cumbia—a style of music that originated in Colombia before conquering the rest of Latin ...

English-born, Colombian-resident musician and producer, Will ‘Quantic’ Holland has a love affair with his adopted country’s national music – the joyful, Caribbean-derived shuffle-beat of cumbia. In a ...

Tribilin Sound, also known as Álvaro Ernesto, is a DJ and producer based in Lima, Peru. He’s part of a musical movement in Lima that’s bringing cumbia, a traditional style of music originating in ...

On July 28, North Miami was treated to a debut performance by Cumbiamba, an ambitious nine-piece local Cumbia band. The group performed at Four’s Fiestas Patrias event, celebrating Peru’s Independence ...

Peel back Colombian history a century or so, scratch around the coastal lowlands, and you’ll find a time and place before regional tropical-music genres had crystallized under the forces of Latin ...

Latin pride, psychedelic cumbia, and charity join together at Cumbia Libre, a benefit concert to support emergency relief in Venezuela. Bogotá’s buzzy psych-cumbia group, Romperayo Sound System, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DSC07820-1 - Credit: Courtesy of Grupo Frontera* Grupo Frontera vocalist Payo Solis remembers the days when he’d pull out of his ...