In celebration of Latinx Heritage Month, NPR Music is spotlighting a series of artists across Latin America who are engaging with their musical heritage in unique ways. From reworking conservative ...

Skater vibes, literally. Watch the Mexico City band perform its blend of garage, marimba and cumbia. For the second consecutive year, NPR teamed up with globalFEST in January 2021 for a thrilling ...

Kacho, Kilos y Mongo Gama crecieron actuando en cementerios. Junto con su padre, José (alias Batuco), los hermanos tocaban junto a los grupos de mariachis y norteños que actuaban para las familias que ...

The marimba-forward folkloric cumbia of Son Rompe Pera’s 2020 debut album, Batuco, didn’t entirely prepare me for the Mexican quintet’s visceral, madcap live shows. The style of cumbia in which they ...

Los integrantes de Son Rompe Pera tienen muchos tatuajes en los brazos, se visten de negro y en el escenario interpretan con la potencia de una banda de rock tradicional, pero en su agrupación la ...

You definitely read that right- a band fronted by the three Gama brothers and their marimba, that fuses multi-hued Cumbia with punk in a way that on paper seems impossible but once you see them and ...