If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. The romantic Latin ballad style known as Bolero arrived in Mexico from Cuba in the 1920s and ...

From a young age, Ángela Aguilar always knew that her purpose was to keep traditional música Mexicana alive. It’s a family affair, really: Her grandfather was ranchera hero Antonio Aguilar and her ...

Grammy-winning producer D'Mile and Mariachi Los Criollos de Guadalajara break down the creative journey behind Mars' new ...

“In my highs and my lows, in times where I've been in love and times where I had my heart broken, bolero has always been there,” says Roberto Carlos, founder of “Boleros de Noche,” a music series in ...

There are five chances to catch "El Arte Del Bolero” by Luis Perdomo and Miguel Zenón in the last week of Spoleto Festival USA. Credit: Jimmy Katz In the landscape of Latin American music, the bolero ...

UNESCO has recognized bolero music as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity, defining it as "identity, emotion and poetry turned into song." Bolero was born in Santiago, southeastern Cuba, at ...

With passionate lyrics about love and broken hearts wrapped in slow tempo string music and rich harmonies, bolero is considered one of Latin America’s most romantic genres of music. And this musical ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KABC) -- "We were thinking about a name that represented the essence of generations that came before us," artist Roberto Carlos said. "Musicians, authors, composers, and we said ...

Daniel Valdez created a bolero song from the poem "Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun." When musician and composer Daniel Valdez first read the poem "Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun," he was reminded of ...

MAURICE RAVEL’S “Boléro” is a strange piece of music, consisting of two melodies repeated nine times each. Originally the score to a ballet, it is catchy and keeps running in the listener’s head long ...