Vallenato, traditional music from Colombia, was immortalized in One Hundred Years Of Solitude and popularized by superstar singer Carlos Vives.... In Colombia, Preserving Songs That Tell Stories ...

Egidio Cuadrado, an icon in Colombia’s music scene and Carlos Vives’ longtime accordion player, is dead at the age of 71. The vallenato star passed away due to health complications related to ...

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Carlos Vives stops himself in mid-sentence and apologizes. He chokes up, overcome by a rush of the same raw, vulnerable emotion that informs his anthemic songs. Tears stream down his face — but ...

When Carlos Vives accepted the Billboard Hall of Fame award at last month’s Billboard Latin Music Awards, the Colombian superstar thanked his home country for the inspiration it has provided over the ...

The small city of Valledupar is famous as the birthplace of vallenato, an upbeat accordion-driven folk music that plays constantly in streets, shops, buses and restaurants across northern Colombia and ...

Unlike stereotypical teenagers, Arturo Guzman and his brother, Ricardo, didn’t reject the old-fashioned music that their parents listened to in their Southern California home. Instead, the two ...

This guitar belonged to Colombian Grammy Award-winning singer and composer Carlos Vives, who is best known for his vallenato chart-topping hits. Vallenato is an upbeat music from the Atlantic coast of ...

The small city of Valledupar is the cradle of vallenato music. The small city of Valledupar is the cradle of vallenato, which is a rustic, folksy and distinctly Colombian musical style. The small city ...

Diomedes Diaz, one of the greatest performers of Colombia's accordion vallenato music, died Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013, at age 56. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan) A boy plays the accordion during a musical ...