The most adventurous production out of Cuba of late is a revisionist take on the venerable rumba. At the MIDEM conference in Cannes last month, producer Cary Diez of the Havana label BIS Music ...

Africa’s leading Congolese Rumba music is now on the list of the world cultural heritage of humanity after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) admitted the ...

Born in San Isidro, Peru, local musician Oscar Alvardo knew at an early age he was destined to play music. He picked up a Peruvian percussion instrument called a cajon (box) at age 3 and by 12 was ...

Crammed Discs comp documents the effects of Cuban son and bossa nova on the Belgian Congo. Save this story Save this story There's a story, possibly apocryphal, that when Paul Simon traveled to South ...

The annual La Feria de Cali wasn’t officially scheduled to begin for more than a week. But by last December 16, the excitement was plain in the banners and billboards plastered throughout Cali ...

Serah Nyaboke’s dream career may be studying medicine as a second degree but her heart is singing rhumba. The 27-year-old clinical medicine student has made her name as a singer, thanks to TikTok. “It ...