The Argentine producer and the Colombian reggaetón superstar announced the unexpected collaboration on Christmas Day with a ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) – Colombians mourned on Monday over the death of musician Diomedes Diaz, the best-known performer of the country's accordion-heavy vallenato music. Hundreds of people swarmed ...

Fans of Colombian singer and composer Diomedes Diaz surround a firefighter truck carrying his coffin to the main square where his body will lie in state until his funeral in Valledupar, Colombia, ...

The new “King of Vallenato,” one of Colombia’s most popular music genres, has been named as the 47th annual Vallenato Legend Festival came to a close on Sunday. The new King of has been named as ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) – Diomedes Diaz, the best-known performer of Colombia's accordion-heavy vallenato music, has died at age 56. Fredys Soccaras, mayor of Valledupar, the city where the ...

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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 ...

Unlike stereotypical teenagers, Arturo Guzman and his brother, Ricardo, didn’t reject the old-fashioned music that their parents listened to in their Southern California home. Instead, the two ...

Colombian composer Rafael Escalona, an icon whose name is synonymous with Colombia's typical vallenato music, died May 13 of respiratory failure in Bogotá, Colombia. He was 81 years old. By Leila Cobo ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombians mourned on Monday over the death of musician Diomedes Diaz, the best-known performer of the country’s accordion-heavy vallenato music. Hundreds of people swarmed ...

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 ...