Get ready, Tijuana! This year’s Independence Day festivities will be filled with rhythm and joy as Margarita “The Cumbia Goddess” takes the stage. The grand celebration will be held on Monday, ...

Laia Mataix Gomez San Jacinto (Colombia), 21 Mar Cumbia, the gateway to the rhythm and color of the Colombian Caribbean, is the living heritage of one of the most representative genres of its folklore ...

The raw, soulful, ubiquitous sound of cumbia is one that we Angelenos should all be familiar with. Born in the barrios of Colombia in the 1950s, the origins of the cumbia can be traced back even ...

The vibrant, ubiquitous sound of cumbia is one that we Angelenos should all be familiar with. Born in the barrios of Colombia in the 1950s, the origins of cumbia can be traced back even further to the ...

It’s been more than 20 years since Isaías Guerrero and his family left Colombia. Like many others, the armed conflict and economic turmoil there prompted them to make their way to the United States.

Edmundo Gómez Moreno spent 11 months as a project manager and systems engineer helping NASA build nano-satellites in Mexico. But in 2015, he could not find a job in the U.S. “I had letters of support ...

Portland cumbia collective Orquestra Pacifico Tropical. (Handout photo) In South and Central America the word "chicha" has at least two definitions; regardless of whether the speaker means the music ...

Happy day/week to all our Cumbia Lovers. Are you looking to add a new rhythm to your life? This is the one. The best of the best rhythm and dances from Mexico. 100% As we all know, not long ago, ...

Once the soundtrack of the working class, cumbia's simple, yet contagious, rhythm absorbed local styles, morphed, and reinvented itself. It has traveled underground through the veins of Latin America ...

Bomba Estereo's lead vocalist, Liliana Saumet, grew up on Colombia's Atlantic Coast. It's where cumbia was born. "I can feel when I sing the cumbia, because it's my origin, my family, my everything," ...