When he began working on the music for Disney’s animated film Encanto five years ago, Lin-Manuel Miranda admits he didn’t know all that much about Colombian music. “I had a beginner’s understanding, ...

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.

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 ...

Colombian Yeison Jiménez, a singer-songwriter and star of "música popular," died Saturday, Jan. 10, in a plane crash near Paipa, in the state of Boyacá in Colombia. He was 34. Colombia's Office of Air ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo illustration by Diana Ramirez / De Los; photos by Claudio Cruz/ Associated Press) Colombian folk music icon Totó La ...

On the last day of the 20th Cartagena Music Festival, at a sold-out show, Giovanni Parra and his quintet finish their set with “Milonguín,” the title of his latest album dedicated to his younger ...

This article by Betto Arcos originally appeared on PRI.org on September 29, 2016. It is republished here as part of a content-sharing agreement. On October 2, Colombians will vote on whether to ratify ...

Richard Blair put his trust in the beats and the rewards are self-evident in Sidestepper, his collaboration with Colombian musician/producer Iván Benavides, and their recent album 3 a.m. (In Beats We ...

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 ...