MEXICO CITY (AP) – Banda music is the soundtrack of modern Mexico, with its thumping polka beat and trumpets blasting everywhere from rural fairs to working-class Mexico City weddings. And it's ...

Sony Music Latin to lead marketing efforts for Banda MS and Snoop Dogg's new song dropping May 1. By Griselda Flores Senior Editor, Latin Lizos Music and Sony Music Latin have signed strategic ...

It's not exactly how one might expect a Grammy winner to describe his happy, pan-Latino dance music - unless he sings under a three-ring big top with fire eaters, lions and clowns. That doesn't apply ...

Only Fuerza Regida’s JOP could pull together the biggest stars in both hip-hop and música mexicana for one festival. On Tuesday, the Fuerza frontman unveiled the lineup for the second annual Don’t ...

Though she perished in a plane crash in 2012, Jenni Rivera is still changing the face of Mexican music. As the first genuine female superstar to emerge out of Mexico’s century-old banda genre, Rivera ...

As a proud Los Angeles native, it’s no surprise that Snoop Dogg loves banda music. (He even attended the same high school as banda legend Jenni Rivera.) And as both regional Mexican and Latin music at ...

As a 26-year-old communications student at Washington State University with a deep passion for music, entertainment and writing, I have always been fascinated by the world of regional Mexican music.

An exploding new talent is turning heads in Modesto for both his voice and his look. A 26-year-old TikTok sensation calls himself Talibelico — a combined term for magical impact, "talisman," and a ...

The beach city of Mazatlán, in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, has long been associated with music — and it is successfully pushing back against noise complaints looking to silence it. Renowned as “the ...

As a child, Lucius Chiccio Banda had little interest in music - he spent his days playing football instead. But Banda's older brother coaxed him to join a church band, setting him on a path to become ...