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 ...

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 ...

Carlos Vives’ guitar, which was recently donated to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Vallenato was traditionally played by farm workers and cowboys and rarely heard outside of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Colombia’s traditional Vallenato music is Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, according to UNESCO. According to the global cultural organization, Vallenato music “faces 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 ...

Omar Geles, a Latin Grammy-nominated vallenato composer, singer, and accordionist, who first gained prominence in the 1980s with the group Los Diablitos before embarking on a successful solo career, ...

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 ...

The 55th Vallenata Legend Festival will once again shine in 2022 with a wide variety of presentations, competitions and activities, with which fans of the musical genre will make Valledupar dance.