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 ...

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Gabriel García Márquez once described his novel “100 Years of Solitude” as a 350-page vallenato. García Márquez, the famed Colombian novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, ...

Like a cowboy in a Hollywood Western, I’m surrounded by Indians. I’m part of an indigenous peoples’ parade, to be more precise. Shuffling along around me down a hot street in northern Colombia on a ...

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 ...

The musician died suddenly of a heart attack Dec. 22, just days after the release of his 30th album. By Leila Cobo, Billboard.com Diomedes Diaz - P 2013 Diomedes Diaz, one of Colombia’s most popular ...