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 ...

Peel back Colombian history a century or so, scratch around the coastal lowlands, and you’ll find a time and place before regional tropical-music genres had crystallized under the forces of Latin ...

With the male gaita, a Colombian reed flute, in his left hand, Kiko Villamizar beckons the drummers with an airy looping riff. The male gaita’s job is to ground —to “hold the seeds of the group in the ...

Gaitero groups, dancers and the general public parade to the cemetery in San Jacinto, Colombia, on Aug. 14, 2022. This is part of a special series, Cumbia Across Latin America, a visual report across ...