Peru News News Peru » Music: Peru: Chicha, the electric pulse of cumbia
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 ...
News Peru » Music: Peru’s José Luis Carballo finally gets the respect he deserves for creating a new way to play cumbia
This Sunday, José Luis Carballo will be the central figure of the “Tribute to Peruvian cumbia” segment included in the Peruvian Fest Chim Pum Callao LA 2022, at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in downtown ...
News Peru » Music: Kaypi Perú 3: Traditional Music and Dance
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 ...
News Peru » Music: Afro-Peruvian rhythms featured at Howard Theatre
Expect a different sound when Susana Baca sings at the Howard Theatre on Tuesday. “I won’t be performing with the usual band of Peruvian musicians,” so the repertoire “is going to have very different ...
News Peru » Music: How Underground Peruvian Music Changed the Sound of L.A.'s Latin Alternative Scene
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 ...
News Peru » Music: Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet
Source: Terri Hinte Publicity December 7, 2020 Afro-Peruvian Jazz Music is the life’s work of trumpeter and composer Gabriel Alegría. For the past 15 years, he has led a cross-cultural ensemble called ...
News Peru » Music: The Curmudgeon: The Other Side of Peruvian Music
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 ...
News Peru » Music: How Novalima modernizes and revives Peru’s African roots music
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 ...
News Peru » Music: Peru: Lima Original
Hosts Fernandez and Edgar meet in Lima, Pera to explore the different sights, sounds, and tastes. Hosts Fernandez and Edgar meet in Lima, Pera to explore the different sights, sounds, and tastes of ...
News Peru » Music: Kaypi Perú 1: Traditional Music and Dance
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 ...