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 ...

Happy day/week to all our Cumbia Lovers. Are you looking to add a new rhythm to your life? This is the one. The best of the best rhythm and dances from Mexico. 100% As we all know, not long ago, ...

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," ...

The roots of hot latin dance and cumbia music are days of slavery in the late 17th century. The name is derived from the African word cumbe, which means dance. Cumbia was brought Colombia around the ...

A passion for Colombian music has helped forge a unique identity in this Mexican city. It gives a distinctive folklore, ...

Tonight we're skipping, steppin'and slappin' - serving up a big leg salad - first with tango and moving on to cumbia - which developed from a folk dance and is said to either represent the movements ...

Tribilin Sound, also known as Álvaro Ernesto, is a DJ and producer based in Lima, Peru. He’s part of a musical movement in Lima that’s bringing cumbia, a traditional style of music originating in ...

MONTERREY, MEXICO–The twin circles on the smooth concrete plaza swell, drawing more and more young bodies into the hurricane of bad haircuts, bright tropical shirts, baggy pants and dirty sneakers.

At 97 years young, Saturia Martinez may be the oldest Zumba dancer in the world! What's her secret to a long life? A recent study shows our bodies go through specific changes in our 40s and 60s.