When Carlos Vives accepted the Billboard Hall of Fame award at last month’s Billboard Latin Music Awards, the Colombian superstar thanked his home country for the inspiration it has provided over the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carlos Vives stops himself in mid-sentence and apologizes. He chokes up, overcome by a rush of the same raw, vulnerable emotion ...

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 ...

With a remastered, extended version released on Friday, see which of the original album's 11 tracks is our favorite. In 1994, Carlos Vives was at a crossroads. He had become an overnight sensation, ...

Oakland-based Los Bahianatos gets the crowd up and dancing at Abbott Square in downtown Santa Cruz. The band describes ...

The unexplored territories of the indigenous tribes of Colombia have inspired and intrigued many for decades. But for Carlos Vives, who grew up along the Caribbean Sea, they also bring an overflow of ...

The release of 'Clásicos de la Provincia' in 1993 relaunched Vives' career and reignited a love of the traditional music of his homeland. By Leila Cobo Co-Chief Content Officer Little more than a ...

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 ...

Jordan Salama | Author of Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena Carlos Vives performed onstage during the world premiere of Walt Disney Animation Studios' Encanto at El Capitan ...

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 ...