For so many North American eardrums, the story of Afro-Cuban music begins and ends with Buena Vista Social Club. The beloved 1997 album — and the 1999 documentary about the unlikely studio sessions ...

Latin Grammy-winning songwriter and international advocate of peace Juan Fernando Fonseca, known to fans simply as Fonseca, will be bringing Colombian tropipop to the house Jackie Gleason built. Named ...

Registration is open for Latin Music Week 2023 October 2-6 in Miami. By Sigal Ratner-Arias Deputy Editor, Billboard Español Billboard unveils today (Aug. 30) the schedule of live shows taking place ...

The pair first met when Fonseca invited Diawara to feature on his 2012 release Yo, in which he explored his own African roots. Since then they seem to have been inseparable, touring extensively, ...

Over the last two decades, Fonseca has been a force in the Latin music industry with tropi-pop and vallenato hits that have made listeners dance and fall in love. The Colombian singer-songwriter, who ...

You could argue that the real dialectic (we’re talking about Cuba, so forgive the Marxist terminology) in Cuban music is between the east and the west of the island. Raw styles from the east like son ...