Afro-Peruvian music was born of slavery and, over the centuries, has been on the verge of slipping into obscurity on many occasions — overlooked by record labels, shrugged off as marginal. Yet it has ...
The claim to fame of Novalima, the eight-piece Peruvian band that has just released its fifth album, “Planetario,” is to have brought modern electronica to traditional Afro-Peruvian music, and vice ...
As poets, musicians, dancers, choreographers, and historians, Victoria and Nicomedes Santa Cruz led the resurgence of Afro-Peruvian arts in the 1960s. Their efforts to restage and reconstruct ...
When most Americans think of Peruvian music, they think of the high Andes Mountains’ Quechuan music, marked by the fluttery sound of the bamboo zamponas pipes, the trebly, 20-string miniature guitar ...
Kaypi, Perú—“This Is Peru” in the indigenous Quechua language—highlights Peru’s rich and diverse cultural heritage and traditional arts. For the webcast portion of the festival, we recorded ...
When the Peruvian trumpeter Gabriel Alegria brings his Afro-Peruvian Sextet to City Park Friday evening at 7 as part of the Berks Arts Council Bandshell Concert Series, the audience will hear a fusion ...
One of the best L.A. concerts of 2016 took place in a little space in Boyle Heights that is no longer there — a bar called the Whitt, with strong $3 margaritas and a guitar covered in tiny mirrors ...
Alternative rocker Santino Delatore is a half-breed: “Half of me is rock ‘n’ roll, half of me is Latino,” says the Peruvian born singer-songwriter. “You see me on stage without audio, you see a rock ...
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