Where it began: Cumbia originated on Colombia’s coast, blending African, Indigenous, and European traditions into a rhythm and dance that later spread widely across Latin America. Mexico’s ...

This is part of a special series, Cumbia Across Latin America, a visual report across six countries developed over several years, covering the people, places and cultures that keep this music genre ...

Luces de colores destellan sobre la pista mientras la cumbia sonidera marca el ritmo: bocinas repartidas por todo el lugar, personas que se mueven al unísono y, por encima de la canción, la voz de un ...

Logan Phillips—widely known in the Old Pueblo, the Arizona-Mexico borderlands and beyond as DJ Dirtyverbs—got hooked on cumbia in the early 2000s while living in the central Mexican state of Querétaro ...