Cumbia comes from Colombia, but the whole world has adopted it. Few musical genres express the Latino heart as well as cumbia Monica Vaca, left, Ana Mendieta, and Carla Teran, all of Naples, Florida, ...

Get those hips ready to shake and sway because a weeklong celebration of cumbia music is coming to Los Angeles in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. “Cumbia is one of the most listened to forms of ...

Cumbia is the backbone of music across Latin America — whether you're from Ushuaia or East Los Angeles, you've likely heard it blaring from a stereo. From our play friends at NPR's Alt.Latino, Jasmine ...

Some of Raquel Pacheco’s favorite childhood memories are of family trips to Mexico City. The relatives they visited there were deeply religious and, as the cultural anthropologist recalled, not ...

Colombian folk music singer Totó La Momposina, known as the "Queen of Cumbia," died May 19 at the age of 85.

Chuck Prophet remembers the day he started listening to cumbia, the Latin American musical style that forms the backbone of his new album Wake the Dead. It was probably 10 years ago, and Prophet was ...

Estevie is bringing the cumbia norteñas of the early 2000s back. On Thursday, the Mexican-American star premieres the music video of her single “Como Yo” with Rolling Stone, ahead of the release of ...

Dancers at a sound system event.(Photo Livia Radwanski.) Australian producer Moses Iten fell in love with cumbia—a style of music that originated in Colombia before conquering the rest of Latin ...

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 ...

The holidays have crept up on us. Stores have feverishly rolled out their Christmas decor, and the smell of cinnamon has replaced pumpkin spice. KOST-FM (103.5) switches to strictly holiday music on ...