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Photo Of Andrea Echeverry de Aterciopelados

Andrea Echeverry de Aterciopelados more »

From Colombia

Biography taken from official website www.aterciopelados.com, March 2004: The group was born in 1990, when Hector Buitrago and Andrea Echeverry creat&hellip » read more

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Antonio Rivas more »

From Colombia

The Spanish legacy to South American music includes the accordion, which was used in Colombia by oral historians, who would play tunes on it while imp&hellip » read more

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Aterciopelados more »

From Colombia

"We're opposed to the cliché about rockers, that all the songs sound the same, the poses and the lyrics - we have been inspired by all of world music&hellip » read more

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Bloque more »

From Colombia, United States

Bloque are an eight-piece Colombian band who bring together styles and sounds that are seemingly incompatible but which together fuse into a hard-edge&hellip » read more

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Bomba Estéreo more »

From Colombia

Where cumbia meets electronic - and travels even further Some things are meant to go together. Cheese and chutney, for example, or gin and Vermouth. A&hellip » read more

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Carolina Herrera more »

From Colombia

Carolina Herrera is a Colombian living in London, where she is currently studying in medicine (she is a fully qualified doctor in Colombia), business &hellip » read more

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Cimarrón more »

From Colombia

Los Llanos Orientales are vast plains that stretch from Colombia into Venezuela. The mestizo people that inhabit these savannahs on the great Orinoco &hellip » read more

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Colores De Mi Tierra more »

From Colombia

Rhythms, dances and melodies from the Caribbean coast of Colombia ...... sounds of tambores, voices, flutes and guitars that have been passed down thr&hellip » read more

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La-33 more »

From Colombia

The toughest, most swinging salsa crew around Most young salsa-influenced bands coming out of the Latin world are overwhelmingly eager to mix and mat&hellip » read more

Los Bajeros de la Montana more »

From Colombia

2002: Desde Colombia, Los Bajeros de la Montaña tocan la música de las montañas ?los vientos atmosféricos, el torrente de ritmos y percusión, y la pod&hellip » read more

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Papa Yera more »

From Colombia, United Kingdom

A papayera group is a collection of local musicians for hire who play the souped-up brass-driven rhythms of cumbia and vallenato, which are so typical&hellip » read more

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Petrona more »

From Colombia

Petrona is the most authentic african-american voice in the Caribbean. Daughter and granddaughter of Bullengueras, she learned this rhythm in an spont&hellip » read more

Roberto Pla’s Latin Ensemble more »

From Colombia

How the UK does Latin music. Everybody salsa! It would be easy to cast the Colombian percussion king Roberto Pla as merely one of the founding fathers&hellip » read more

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Sidestepper more »

From Colombia, United Kingdom

What began as a solo studio project in 1996 for the UK's Richard Blair soon grew into a production and writing duo with Colombian songwriter Ivan Bena&hellip » read more

Son Colombia more »

From Colombia

Straight from the Caribbean coast of northern Colombia, this is the first visit to the UK by Son Colombia. The band plays salsa and merengue with a d&hellip » read more

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Totó La Momposina y sus Tambores more »

From Colombia

Some artists are totem figures for WOMAD, constant presences who?ve been with us right from those days when the organisation was taking its first teet&hellip » read more

Yeré more »

From Colombia

2002: La peculiar forma de entender la música y los ritmos en Colombia vuelve a los escenarios de WOMAD Cáceres esta vez de la mano de Yeré. Esta agru&hellip » read more


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