An umbrella category for styles associated with the cultures of South America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Examples include merengue from the Dominican Republic, tango from Argentina, samba and bossa nova from Brazil, calypso from Trinidad, and rhumba, mambo, and salsa from Cuba.
For English-language sites that deal with styles within the Afro-Latin music umbrella. Non-English language sites should be submitted to the appropriate subcategory in https://curlie.org/World/.
For sites about the music and artists/bands making or performing Afro-Cuban, Afro-Peruvian, Afro-Uruguayan, and related styles of music.
For English-language sites that deal with styles within the Afro-Latin music umbrella. Non-English language sites should be submitted to the appropriate subcategory in https://curlie.org/World/.
Andeam music is a blend of Native American, Spanish, and African influences. It refers to the music of the Andean highlands of South America. The primary instruments are kena flutes, siku panpipes, small charango guitars, bombo drums, and indigenous harps.
Latin musicians, songwriters, bands, singers, and performers.
If the band, artist, musician, or group is particularly associated with one of the following genres, please list in the Bands and Artists category of that genre:
Arose in the early 1960s as a softer, slower version of the samba. Compositions by Antonio Carlos Jobim such as "The Girl from Ipanema" were eagerly adopted by jazz players in the US and worldwide. Bossa continues to influence jazz and popular music into the 21st century.
Norteño, also known as música norteña or conjunto, is a style of music that developed in South Texas and Northern Mexico. In South Texas the style was known as conjunto. This style of music is the main ancestor of Tejano music.
This category embraces all the different syles of music, artists, and songs that feature the basic instruments of the style, the diatonic button accordion and the bajo sexto guitar.
These include but are not limited to the following styles of music and songs: música norteña, norteño, conjunto, orquesta, ranchera, corridos, quebradita, tambora, huapango, and norticumbia.
Sites that are not in English should be submitted to the appropriate category under World.
Includes streaming web broadcasts of Latin music (such as live365.com stations, ampcast, and mp3 "stations"), as well as sites for Latin music shows on AM and FM radio.
Dance music that blends African, Spanish, Cuban and Puerto Rican sounds, sometimes with jazzy arrangements but often with heavy horn power. Song styles include the son montuno, danzon and guaguanco, but the main engine is the son.
Please submit Salsa bands and vocalists'' info sites only.
A dance and type of music from Brazil originating from African slaves. Samba music is in 2/4 time (in two) with a high bass drum beat on the first beat, and the lower foundation beat on the second beat. The lower second beat must be the same or of lesser intensity than the first higher beat.
Sites listed here will be mainly about samba music. More general sites (eg about Latin music) belong in a more general category.
NB Sites about the samba dance will not be listed here, and belong in Arts/Music/Styles/R/Regional_and_Ethnic/Latin/Samba.
Zouk and biguine music are high energy dance music forms from the French Antilles. Most of the well-known zouk artists are from Martinique and Guadalupe, though they have popularity through the Caribbean world. Recently, zouk culture has been appearing in Brazil and on other islands.