Musician San Cha is photographed at her home in Highland Park. Her music is dramatic and often explosive, weaving storytelling into the cumbia, punk and Latin rhythms that inspire her work. (Mel ...

The death of singer Vicente Fernández — nicknamed "El Chente" — hit hard for Mexicans around the world, particularly for the older generation. He was known to his many fans as El Rey — the King — of ...

Trying to explain what música ranchera is to non-Mexicans reminds me of the apocryphal quote attributed to–take your pick–Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington, when someone asked what jazz is. Ranchera ...