Honduran ambassador of Garifuna music and politician died at 55 in a plane crash. Martínez's official Facebook page confirmed his death and mourned the loss of the musician.

Aurelio Martínez, the celebrated Honduran folk musician who helped introduce the wider world to the music of the Garifuna people, died Monday, March 17, in a small passenger plane crash. He was ...

Honduran folk musician Aurelio Martínez has died. The 55-year-old was a respected proponent of the Central American culture known as Garifuna. According to his spokesperson, Martinez and 11 other ...

"When you listen to Garifuna music, even if you don't understand our world, you're going to feel our spirit." ...

READING – In 2001, UNESCO proclaimed the language, dance and music of the Garifuna people of Nicaragua, Honduras and Belize a “Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.” Th… ...

And he realized that pouring Garifuna music into the increasingly homogeneous gumbo of world music was counterproductive to his desire to preserve its traditional identity.

For more than 15 years, the Garifuna Collective has inspired a sense of pride in Garifuna culture throughout Central America. MusicUnitesUS is a campus-wide program hosted by the Brandeis University ...

Andy Palacio, a singer and guitarist whose critically acclaimed music championed the vanishing language and culture of the Garifuna people of his native Belize and made him a cultural icon in the ...