Colombia has the biggest Black population in a Spanish-speaking country. Despite this, Afro-Colombian music and backgrounds are not well-documented in American society, according to Boston University ...

An acoustic folk music developed by his enslaved ancestors along Colombia's Pacific coast helped to keep John Jairo Cortez on the straight and narrow. While growing up in the crime-ridden town of ...

Unidad Deportiva Alberto Galindo, a sports complex in Cali, Colombia, is home to what is affectionately called "El Petronio." For the last 27 years, hundreds of thousands of people have traveled to ...

For the Ticuna tribes that live in the Amazon along Brazil, Colombia, and Perú, the Curupira is a spirit that protects the jungle from the bad-intentioned hunters. The Colombian band Curupira, which ...

The musician died suddenly of a heart attack Dec. 22, just days after the release of his 30th album. By Leila Cobo, Billboard.com Diomedes Diaz - P 2013 Diomedes Diaz, one of Colombia’s most popular ...

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