While the Festival de la Leyenda Vallenata 2024 is celebrated in Colombia, we present six exponents of the new wave of the genre that you should know. By Luisa Calle SEO Specialist, Billboard Español ...

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 ...

The small city of Valledupar is the cradle of vallenato music. The small city of Valledupar is the cradle of vallenato, which is a rustic, folksy and distinctly Colombian musical style. The small city ...

Billboard premieres Silvestre Dangond's new video "Vallenato Apetao." By Jessica Roiz Assistant Editor, Latin Silvestre Dangond takes it back to more than six decades ago for his new music video ...

Festival de la Leyenda Vallenata revealed part of its lineup for the 2026 edition on Thursday (Dec. 18). The event will take place April 29 to May 2 at the iconic Parque de la Leyenda Vallenata ...

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 ...

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 ...

The small city of Valledupar is famous as the birthplace of vallenato, an upbeat accordion-driven folk music that plays constantly in streets, shops, buses and restaurants across northern Colombia and ...

Carlos Vives stops himself in mid-sentence and apologizes. He chokes up, overcome by a rush of the same raw, vulnerable emotion that informs his anthemic songs. Tears stream down his face — but ...