Photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document cumbia music in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, ...

A passion for Colombian music has helped forge a unique identity in this Mexican city. It gives a distinctive folklore, ...

The Hollywood hills are alive, once again, with the dance rhythms of cumbia. Noche de Cumbia is back and bigger than ever, with shows at both the Hollywood Bowl and the Ford. The two-night concert ...

This is part of a special series, Cumbia Across Latin America, a visual report across six countries covering the people, places and cultures that keep this music genre alive. All dance was seen as ...

Local supergroup embodies the San Diego-Tijuana region with a fresh cumbia sound and danceable songs in a forthcoming new album. In the latest installment of our KPBS Summer Music Series, we feature a ...

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

Ni de aquí, ni de allá. The Spaghetti sound was born out ... A view on Nov. 6, 2023, of downtown LA, where Spaghetti Cumbia would play regularly at the mezcal bar Las Perlas. Campos leaves his home in ...

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, ...

“The people were dancing crazy. I couldn't believe what I was seeing,” recalled Pedro Canale — better known as Chancha Via Circuito — of his first Los Angeles show. “It looked like a party in Buenos ...

Whether you're in a convenience store in Ushuaia, the southernmost tip of Argentina, Mexico City or East L.A., you're likely to hear cumbia blaring from a stereo. In Latin America, no musical style ...

Over the last 35 years, Mexico’s Los Ángeles Azules has become one of the country’s top-selling bands using something of a radical strategy: introducing new generations to cumbia, the style of dance ...