Tag: vallenato

Vallenato originates from Caribbean villages in the Valledupar region of Colombia. Carlos Vives is today's best known vallenato singer.

This is one of the songs I listen to most when I'm missing Medellin. As with most vallenato songs, it's about love. You can see...

Silvestre Dangond's "La Gringa" is like a tourism promo for his home country, Colombia. In the video, he fantasizes about a pretty woman from New...

Jorge Celedon hails from La Guajira Peninsula, and along with Silvestre Dangond, is one of my favorite vallenato singers. Jimmy Zambrano accompanies him on the...

I caught this vallenato song, Como Me Duele by Gusi & Besto featuring Luis Enrique, on TV recently, and noticed the video was shot...

If you like vallenato, check out this recent post on Expat Chronicles about the distinctly Colombian genre of music.

Now that I'm back in the US, I can turn on the car radio and hear salsa and reggaeton, but Colombia's very own genre,...

Carlos Vives hails from Santa Marta, Colombia on the Caribbean coast.  He was one of the artist's Maira introduced me to months ago when...