Roberto Roena may be known as a singer and bongosero but it was his ferocious footwork and ingenious choreography on the dance floor that won him moniker, “El Gran Bailarin” (The Great Dancer). And he ...

ON A chilly evening in an empty theatre in Bogotá an unusual assortment of musicians prepares for a concert. Violinists, cellists and flautists from Colombia’s National Symphony Orchestra join players ...

The Latin melting pot that was New York in the 1960s and 1970s gave rise to salsa dura, or hard salsa. The neighborhoods of Brooklyn, Queens and the South Bronx were teeming with immigrants from Cuba, ...

Spanish-language music is all over the pop charts these days, but back in the 1940s, Latino musicians reached U.S. audiences through what were considered specialty record labels. One of the most ...

Preston Salsa king Phil Kaila takes to the stage in Liverpool as he plays Bongo Eddie of the band Kid Creole and the Coconuts in a new one-off play written by the late musician's partner, writes ...

A Tanzanian musical style, known as Bongo Flava, is now becoming popular across Africa. It started in the early 1990s as a Tanzanian version of hip hop and R&B, but back then most artists were not ...