One of the most listened-to genres in the Americas, photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document ...

Get those hips ready to shake and sway because a weeklong celebration of cumbia music is coming to Los Angeles in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. “Cumbia is one of the most listened to forms of ...

People often say cumbia is one of the best vehicles for communicating the Hispanic culture and identity. While its history can be traced back to African and Germanic influences, Colombia is where this ...

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When I heard someone on NPR say cumbia was “the musical backbone of Latin America,” I almost crashed my car into a light post. “You wish!” I thought. Then, after veering out of trouble and cooling off ...

If you’ve not heard of cumbia, there’s never been a better time to get in-the-know. One of Colombia’s finest cultural exports, it’s a style of music and dance that is so irresistibly grooved that it ...

Listen to this playlist on Spotify or Apple Music. It's kinda curious how each week Stefanie Fernández and I each listen to new music individually and very often we end up sharing similar themes, or ...

Before "Noche de Cumbia" was even a concept, Mario Rodríguez and his wife, Elizabeth, hosted a series of shows featuring Houston musician Gio Chamba, a mixture of electro-psychedelic rock and cumbia — ...

Omar Apollo‘s short-lived El Buki hair finally served a purpose. On Thursday, Latin Mafia released their flowy, sad boy cumbia “Hecho Para Ti,” featuring vocals from Apollo, as they channeled the late ...