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 ...

The remnants of Monterrey’s socialist party are holed up in Cafe Nuevo Brasil drinking Bohemias and plotting Mexico’s next revolution. The jukebox blurts out another hit by Colombian diva Shakira, ...

MONTERREY, Mexico — When Yadira Ayala was a child, she walked along one of the many dirt paths on Cerro Loma Larga to her grandmother’s home. She lived on the hill next to Ayala’s house in Colonia ...

A look at how cumbia found a second home in Mexico's "Little Colombia." This is part of a special series, Cumbia Across Latin America, a visual report across six countries developed over several years ...

This is part of a special series, Cumbia Across Latin America, a visual report across six countries developed over several years, covering the people, places and cultures that keep this music genre ...

More than 30 years ago, Celso Piña introduced cumbia into Mexico and established his native Monterrey as the seat of the genre. In this millennium, the accordionist then revolutionized the popular ...

Junf is back with Raul to play 3 new songs for us. Modern cumbia gets an accordion twist in “Fantasma” by Rocko Paez. From the Monterrey scene, Kiddie Gang is not quite a band, not quite a collective.

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 ...

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 ...

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters Life!) - Ringed by soaring mountains, Monterrey in northern Mexico offers breathtaking scenery, museums and a vibrant nightlife which are being discovered as it sheds ...