When I was a teenager, I spent a summer playing drums with my uncle's accordion conjunto, a small group of guitar, bass, drums and, of course, an accordion. We played standard Mexican bar music: ...

As a child, Noé Álvarez “wandered the orchards under the spell of corridistas — musicians whose spitfire fingers flew over their three-row accordion keys,” he writes in his memoir, “Accordion Eulogies ...

Antonio Romero had waited all night in a packed arena here for the band to play his favorite song, a brassy, sultry cumbia he had danced to as a teenager in Mexico City. It had been 22 years since he ...

Celso Piña, a self-taught Mexican accordionist who turned his hometown of Monterrey into an unlikely oasis for cumbia, the Colombian dance music, then became a Latin music superstar with his fusion of ...

Marlene Dolores Rodriguez DeHerrera grew up in Modesto surrounded by music. Her father, Eusebio Rodriguez, founded the Norteño band Los Reales Del Norte in 1985, and by her teenage years, she had ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican musician Celso Pina, famed as "the rebel of the accordion" for mixing eclectic styles with traditional Colombian cumbia, died on Wednesday of a heart attack in his ...