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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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Iconic artists like Daniel Santos, Agustín Lara and Javier Solís are considered to be pioneers of the beautiful bolero music that originated in Cuba and popularized in Mexico in the early 1900s, and… ...

Bolero is perhaps most famous as the love theme for Dudley Moore and Bo Derek in the 1979 movie 10. But Maurice Ravel didn't strictly have romance in mind when he composed the classic piece a ...

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 ...

Thanh Quang Minh is a construction engineer in HCM City, but that hasn't dampened his passion for bolero music. Thanh Quang Minh is a construction engineer in HCM City, but that hasn't dampened his ...