BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) – Colombians mourned on Monday over the death of musician Diomedes Diaz, the best-known performer of the country's accordion-heavy vallenato music. Hundreds of people swarmed ...

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The small city of Valledupar is the cradle of vallenato music. The small city of Valledupar is the cradle of vallenato, which is a rustic, folksy and distinctly Colombian musical style. The small city ...

"His passing leaves a deep void in the music and lives of those who knew him," Vives said. By Jessica Roiz Assistant Editor, Latin Egidio Cuadrado, an icon in Colombia’s music scene and Carlos Vives’ ...

This guitar belonged to Colombian Grammy Award-winning singer and composer Carlos Vives, who is best known for his vallenato chart-topping hits. Vallenato is an upbeat music from the Atlantic coast of ...

The government partitioned the Colombian music style vallenato to UNESCO’s cultural heritage list, the president announced wednesday. The Colombian government partitioned the traditional music genre ...

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2001 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. Permission to publish materials from the collection ...

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 ...