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“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the past few years, Adrian Quesada of Black Pumas fame has injected new life into the 19th-century bolero. Inspired by the traditional Latin American ballad and psychedelic recordings of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the Sarasota Orchestra performs Maurice Ravel’s “Bolero” at its next Masterworks concert, principal percussionist Marcelina Suchocka will be getting herself into a zone. For nearly 15 straight ...