Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colombian Yeison Jiménez, a singer-songwriter and star of “música popular,” died Saturday, Jan. 10, in a plane crash near Paipa, ...

Singer-songwriter Yeison Jiménez is among six people who died on Jan. 10 in a Colombia plane crash, just hours before he was scheduled to perform. On Saturday, the Special Administrative Unit of Civil ...

Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez once said that One Hundred Years of Solitude was a 400-page Vallenato: a traditional music of Colombia's Caribbean coast. The songs are mini-epics, filled with ...

Discover Petrona Martínez, the "Queen of Bullerengue," who rose from poverty in rural Colombia to win a Latin Grammy, preserving Afro-Colombian music rooted in history.

Classical music is rooted in Western Europe. But these days, some of the world's most innovative orchestra conductors come from Latin America. The best known is Venezuela's Gustavo Dudamel. But as ...