Latin music is one of music’s most diverse, influential, and exciting genres. Its roots come from traditional African music that, along with its people, made its way to Havana, New Orleans, and ...

When Paquito Hechavarria and German Pifferrer were kids, mambo was new and Dámaso Perez Prado ruled. “I remember when I was little, I used to sit at the piano,” says the 62-year-old Hechavarria, ...

“They were doin’ the mambo. What the heck is a mambo?” came across the space of my office. I listen to “oldies” to open up the right side of my mind for creativity as I write. Those lyrics and the ...

The Roseland State Ballroom in Bos ton’s Back Bay, just down the street from Symphony Hall, was jumping last week. It was jumping higher than Bostomans had seen in a long while. Cause: the mambo a ...

African groups in Cuba, which Sublette traces to four distinct regions on the dark continent, kept a lot of their culture and traditions intact through the formation of cabildos, something like 'town ...

The Ghost of Segovia with a Chianti buzz. The 56-year-old Carlos Barbosa-Lima is a Brazilian national treasure. He has performed and recorded widely the music of this homeland and that of the American ...

The Mambo Kings of Orquesta Akokan. Pepito Gomez and Jacob Plasse are second and third from left, back row. Credit: Photo by Adrien H. Tillmann/Courtesy of JP Cutler Media If you ever want a test of ...

As the 2020 Carnival season builds to a climax, there’s more than “Mardi Gras Mambo” in local music venues. Here are highlights of the big week ahead. The rock/rap/reggae hybrid that is 311 has proven ...

Are you ready to do the mambo with the boys of A-Prince? The handsome idol group released the dance version music video of “Mambo” through their official YouTube channel. For the dance choreography ...