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 ...

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 ...

Music has always been a part of Merian Eyzaguirre’s life. Growing up in a family full of musicians in Lima, Peru, family gatherings were always full of singing and playing the charango, a small Andean ...

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 ...

Women dance “La Marinera” at the Charlotte Peruvian Festival in this undated photo. This story first appeared as part of WFAE's EQUALibrium newsletter, exploring race and equity in the Charlotte ...

Eva Ayllon, the Afro-Peruvian singer who now lives in Paterson, will team with Albita for a Thursday night show at Town Hall in New York. It's not quite a "Game of Thrones"-like royal intrigue, but ...

In her 50-year career, Baca has been a singer, ethnomusicologist and Peru’s minister of culture. As she releases her 16th album, she reveals why her work is as vital as it has ever been Susana Baca ...

Peña (CD/DVD)—Out October 12, 2010 (Secret Stash Records) Two Record Diggers Explore Peru's Deep Musical History & Return with Invigorating New Recordings of the Afro-Peruvian Scene Thanks to the fast ...

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 ...

After the Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet’s first set one recent rainy Saturday, Tutuma Social Club owner Santina Bari plugged the band’s CDs and quipped, “It’s much cheaper than opening up a ...

When someone once asked Nando Chang if he was into Tupac, the Peruvian American hip-hop fan thought the reference was to Tupac Amaru, a legendary Incan warrior. In fact, Tupac Shakur was named after ...