By Judy Cantor-Navas Writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez once famously called his novel 100 Years of Solititude a “350-page vallenato.” Colombia’s storytelling country music was born in the ...

Vallenato is one of the most popular and representative music genres in Colombia. Although it started in the coast, it is difficult to find a Colombian that does not feel identified with an ...

Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez once said that One Hundred Years of Solitude was a 400-page Vallenato: a traditional music of Colombia's Caribbean coast. The songs are mini-epics ...

In the background, bookshelves are filled with novels ... It was 1993 when Vives burst into the scene with "La Gota Fría" - a raucous vallenato nugget from 1938 that he transformed into a ...