Thalía says "everything sounds better in cumbia." The Latin pop star's 17th studio album "Todo Suena Mejor en Cumbia" ...

Colombian folk music singer Totó La Momposina, known as the "Queen of Cumbia," died May 19 at the age of 85.

Edmundo Gómez Moreno spent 11 months as a project manager and systems engineer helping NASA build nano-satellites in Mexico. But in 2015, he could not find a job in the U.S. “I had letters of support ...

Before "Noche de Cumbia" was even a concept, Mario Rodríguez and his wife, Elizabeth, hosted a series of shows featuring Houston musician Gio Chamba, a mixture of electro-psychedelic rock and cumbia — ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Cumbia comes from Colombia, but the whole world has adopted it. Few musical genres express the Latino heart as well as cumbia Monica Vaca, left, Ana Mendieta, and Carla Teran, all of Naples, Florida, ...

Cumbia is the backbone of music across Latin America — whether you're from Ushuaia or East Los Angeles, you've likely heard it blaring from a stereo. From our play friends at NPR's Alt.Latino, Jasmine ...

Some of Raquel Pacheco’s favorite childhood memories are of family trips to Mexico City. The relatives they visited there were deeply religious and, as the cultural anthropologist recalled, not ...

If you’ve not heard of cumbia, there’s never been a better time to get in-the-know. One of Colombia’s finest cultural exports, it’s a style of music and dance that is so irresistibly grooved that it ...

Whether you're in a convenience store in Ushuaia, the southernmost tip of Argentina, Mexico City or East L.A., you're likely to hear cumbia blaring from a stereo. In Latin America, no musical style ...