The album opens with the tropical cumbia "Claves," a nod to the late Rigo Tovar, before he moves into tracks like "Un Pacto," ...

Celso Piña, the self-taught Mexican accordionist, singer and songwriter has died at the age of 66. Piña's record label, La Tuna Group, said in a statement on Twitter that he died Wednesday, Aug. 21 at ...

Installation view of Pioneros Vallenatos y Tropicales; The Story of Toño Estrada at LaPau Gallery, 2022 (courtesy LaPau Gallery, photo by Jorge Balleza) Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on ...

Mexican cumbia icons Los Ángeles Azules and Argentine star Emilia joined forces to sing their chart-topping Billboard hit “Perdonarte, ¿Para Qué?” at Premios Juventud 2024. Their performance marked a ...

Regional Mexican music — an umbrella term given to the broad range of subgenres with folk roots that include banda, mariachi, norteño and corridos — has long been absent from the main categories of ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Antonio Romero had waited all night in a packed arena here for the band to play his favorite song, a brassy, sultry cumbia he had danced to as a teenager in Mexico City. It had been ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

GREENSBORO, N.C.GREENSBORO, N.C. — Antonio Romero had waited all night in a packed arena here for the band to play his favorite song, a brassy, sultry cumbia he had danced to as a teenager in Mexico ...