This local supergroup embraces the Peruvian style of cumbia known as chicha, which was named for a fermented drink. Chicha music first came to attention in North America with the release of the ...

Photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document cumbia music in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and the United... This is part of a special series, Cumbia Across ...

The Roots of Chicha explores another little-known (outside of Peru) subgenre of global groove music: chicha, an infectious combination of Peruvian traditional music, Colombian cumbias and ...

Pedro Tolomeo Rojas, known as Monky, enters his studio in Lima on Oct. 21, 2024. Monky was a pioneer in the making of the posters that publicize cumbia concerts and are now considered chicha art. His ...