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 ...

For Netflix’s “Narcos,” which follows the rise of the Colombian drug cartel, composer Pedro Bromfman wanted to infuse the score with an authentic flavor without relying on cliched Latin rhythms. To ...

Ghana and Colombia have reaffirmed their commitment to deepening cultural cooperation following a meeting between the ...

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 ...

Minutes before midnight on Saturday at the Petronio Alvarez Festival in Cali, Colombia, the sound system stopped working with La Herencia de Timbiquí onstage. The crowd, estimated at 45,000 by ...

Javier Perez Sandoval's Carrera Quinta is a Colombian sextet established in 2006 by composers Javier and Francy Montalvo. The band blends contemporary jazz with traditional Colombian music from the ...

Ms Kelis Zulay Moreno Mosquera, Chargé d’Affaires of the Colombian Embassy in Ghana, has paid a courtesy call on the tourism minister to discuss ongoing cultural collaborations and explore ...

It might get loud. Like, really loud. In a 15-by-15-foot acoustically padded and carpeted box at Space ATX in South Austin, Colombian trio Nemegata finally finishes loading in and faces off. Fabián ...

Elena Hinestrosa and her ensemble, Integración Pacífica, perform at one of Petronio Alvarez Music Festival's educational panels. (Maria Paz Gutierrez) In western Colombia, the Petronio Alvarez ...

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 ...