Harare — ONCE, rhumba music was the music in Zimbabwe. Birthday parties, kitchen parties, weddings, graduation celebrations and Christmas parties were nothing until a Congolese rhumba artiste's music ...

Born in San Isidro, Peru, local musician Oscar Alvardo knew at an early age he was destined to play music. He picked up a Peruvian percussion instrument called a cajon (box) at age 3 and by 12 was ...

The most adventurous production out of Cuba of late is a revisionist take on the venerable rumba. At the MIDEM conference in Cannes last month, producer Cary Diez of the Havana label BIS Music ...

Gaborone — It has been seven years since Frank Lesokwane surrendered his gun and pair of boots and picked up his guitar to make music for the nation. He is now a famed rumba artiste known as Franco.

Africa’s leading Congolese Rumba music is now on the list of the world cultural heritage of humanity after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) admitted the ...

Chicago-based journalist Catalina Maria Johnson hosts the 15th installment of World Cafe's Latin Roots music series. Johnson writes in Spanish and English for publications such as HOY, Revista ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Rumba Attack is a Cyprus-based music group ...

Recorded live (as are all great jazz albums), Texas Rumba thunders with adore y la alegra. It is Latin Jazz fresh and crisp as spring tomatoes and cilantro. Harvie S (AKA Harvie Swartz) is an ...

Saturday night at Chelsea’s Live, the decidedly non-mainstream Pokey LaFarge returns to Baton Rouge for the first time in more than a dozen years. LaFarge aptly titled his genre-mashing latest album ...