This week, we dive into Cumbia music as part of SK Pop's 'Unheard Genres' series. Salsa, tango and mambo are familiar words to most. They refer to a signature dance, usually accompanied by an equally ...

Bomba Estereo's lead vocalist, Liliana Saumet, grew up on Colombia's Atlantic Coast. It's where cumbia was born. "I can feel when I sing the cumbia, because it's my origin, my family, my everything," ...

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 ...

is your neighborhood reporter for Robstown and western Nueces County. This style of music will get you on your feet! We're talking about Cumbia. For this Hispanic Heritage Month, we show you how it's ...

The raw, soulful, ubiquitous sound of cumbia is one that we Angelenos should all be familiar with. Born in the barrios of Colombia in the 1950s, the origins of the cumbia can be traced back even ...

Cumbia is often something you hear before you know its name. It arrives early, at family parties, backyard gatherings, long afternoons that stretch into the night, folded into the background of daily ...

Cumbia, the traditional Latin American dance and folk music genre, has been declared part of the national cultural heritage of Colombia. The status was declared by the country’s Minister of Culture, ...

The vibrant, ubiquitous sound of cumbia is one that we Angelenos should all be familiar with. Born in the barrios of Colombia in the 1950s, the origins of cumbia can be traced back even further to the ...

LOS ANGELES — Elsa Miriam Escobar, a 47-year-old D.J., surveyed the crowd on a recent Wednesday night at La Cita, a downtown Mexican dive bar here. A cluster of twirling couples danced to a cumbia ...

The remnants of Monterrey’s socialist party are holed up in Cafe Nuevo Brasil drinking Bohemias and plotting Mexico’s next revolution. The jukebox blurts out another hit by Colombian diva Shakira, ...