This summer, singer-songwriter Yeison Jimenez achieved his lifelong dream of selling out the coveted Movistar Arena in Bogotá, Colombia — not once, but three times, with more than 40,000 collective ...

Música popular colombiana - or "popular Colombian music" - made its debut with a big bang at the 2024 Billboard Latin Music awards with a performance by Luis Alfonso opening the show. The Colombian ...

A recent song’s explicit lyrics have prompted criticism that the music promotes harmful stereotypes about Colombia. By Genevieve Glatsky Reporting from Bogotá, Colombia “A mamacita since she was 14,” ...

One of the most listened-to genres in the Americas, photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document ...

He leads Billboard’s 100-position Top Latin Artists of the 21st Century retrospective. Below, find a breakdown of the 2000-24 ...

In 2011, researchers for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival traveled to the Orinoco Plains of Colombia. Their van broke down, leading to an unplanned performance of improvised trovas verses in the ...

One of the most listened-to genres in the Americas, photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document ...