Meet Santa Mala, an up and coming all female Bolivian hip hop group based in São Paulo, Brazil. Having a chola-esque feel to their rapping and fashion style, this group is crossing all kinds of borders. Three sisters from... Read Article
Legendary Bolivian songbird Luzmila Carpio gave an astonishing concert last Friday in La Paz’s Teatro Municipal, marvelling the crowd with a set of classic and new compositions. It was the third of three sold out shows to a... Read Article
Think of cholitas, the indigenous Bolivian women, and you will most probably have ladies dressed in bowler hats, pleated multi-layered skirts and even more colourful shawls known as “mantas” in mind. Now imagine eleven indigenous Bolivian women with... Read Article
At first glance, the premise of Road To La Paz (Original Title: Camino A La Paz) may seem predictable. Firstly, because it’s a Latin American road movie, and secondly, due to its title – although it refers to... Read Article
Encompassing swathes of Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina, the Gran Chaco is South America’s second-largest wilderness after the Amazon rainforest. But in stark contrast to its tropical neighbour, the Chaco is a dry, sun-charred no-man’s land of thorn forest... Read Article
I’m the first to admit that working for Sounds and Colours is an opportunity for me to get an education in Latin American pop music. As the daughter of a father who lived and breathed tropical salsa and... Read Article
The indigenous Aymara people have been discriminated against since colonial times and make up the second largest ethnic group In Bolivia. The Aymara’s knowledge of the land, ability to adapt to modernisation, and extensive trading networks have ensured... Read Article
Yes, oh god yes! We were looking for something different to celebrate the fact that Carnival is almost upon us, and I think we’ve found it. As part of his excellent La Noche de los Discos Vivientes series... Read Article
Latinbeat 2013’s 10 day festival of Latin American film includes many North American premieres as well as a huge variety of new and lesser-known directors. As series programmer Marcela Goglio notes, the selection for this year includes many... Read Article
Random Is Not A Whatever are a rare thing, a record label from Bolivia. This year they’ve released a number of albums from Bolivian artists that are clearly influenced by both Latin American and international music but also... Read Article
Known as “the roof top of the world” due to its high elevation in the Andes mountains, Bolivia is a melting pot of indigenous and hybrid forms of music and cultural values. Although sixty percent of the country’s... Read Article
November 14 marked a milestone in the history of the Andean region as it was 229 years since the indigenous leader Tupak Katari was sacrificed.
