Vallenato is one of the most popular and representative music genres in Colombia. Although it started in the coast, it is difficult to find a Colombian that does not feel identified with an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Diomedes Diaz, the best-known performer of Colombia's accordion-heavy vallenato music, has died at age 56.

Amongst Colombian users of Twitter, the trend of publishing phrases from Vallenato songs -under the tag #Elvallenatomeenseñó [es] (Vallenato taught me)- has emerged, with the intention of highlighting ...

Vallenato, traditional music from Colombia, was immortalized in One Hundred Years Of Solitude and popularized by superstar singer Carlos Vives.... In Colombia, Preserving Songs That Tell Stories ...

MIAMI (Billboard) - Vallenato, the traditional, accordion-anchored music of Colombia's Caribbean coast, has long been seen as a poor cousin of tropical music in the United States. Although vallenato's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carlos Vives stops himself in mid-sentence and apologizes. He chokes up, overcome by a rush of the same raw, vulnerable emotion ...

Bogotá, 22 jun (EFE).Bogotá, 22 jun (EFE). — El compositor colombiano Leandro Díaz, autor de clásicos de la música vallenata como “La diosa coronada” o “Matilde Lina”, murió hoy a los 85 años en la ...

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But offstage Díaz was often out-of-control. He was a heavy drinker and cocaine user who sometimes took the stage inebriated ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) – Diomedes Diaz, the best-known performer of Colombia's accordion-heavy vallenato music, has died at age 56. Fredys Soccaras, mayor of Valledupar, the city where the ...

Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez once said that One Hundred Years of Solitude was a 400-page Vallenato: a traditional music of Colombia's Caribbean coast. The songs are mini-epics, filled with ...