Aurelio Martínez Suazo, a renowned Honduran musician and cultural ambassador of the Garifuna community, passed away on March 17, 2025, in a plane crash near…
Aurelio Martínez, Prominent Garifuna Musician, Dies in Plane Crash in Honduras
Tag: Garifuna music
Aurelio Martinez & The Garifuna Soul Band to Perform in New York City
Honduran singer-songwriter, guitarist, percussionist, and political activist, Aurelio Martinez is set to perform with The Garifuna Soul Band on Thursday, December 16, 2021 at (le)…
Artist Profiles: Julio Zelaya
Julio Zelaya is one of the most important contemporary composers in Central America. He plays original compositions using the unique Honduran garifuna rhythms and exposes…
The Garifuna Collective Tops the November 2019 Transglobal World Music Chart
Aban from Belize-based The Garifuna Collective is the Transglobal World Music Chart’s number one album in November 2019. The Garifuna Collective has performed in over…
Garifuna Collective, Uplifting Musical Traditions and Resilience
The Garifuna Collective – ABAN (Stonetree Records, 2019) The Garifuna Collective delivers an album where Garifuna musical traditions are combined with modern musical forms such…
Garifuna Music
Garifuna is a unique culture based on the Caribbean coast of Central America (Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras) that blends elements of West African and Native…
Belize’s Garifuna Collective Reveals 2019 Tour Dates
The Garifuna Collective, Belize’s acclaimed Afro-Indigenous roots music band will be touring Europe and North America in support of its new album, Aban, this summer.…
Africa Oyé Announces Headliners for 2019 festival
The Garifuna Collective from Belize and celebrated reggae artist Horace Andy will headline the 27th annual Africa Oyé festival this summer in the UK. Africa…
Artist Profiles: Mohobub Flores
Percussionist and singer Mohobub Flores was born in Dandriga, cultural and musical capital of the Garifuna community of Belize and birthplace of Pen Cayetano, a…
Artist Profiles: Pen Cayetano
Garifuna artist Delvin “Pen” Cayetano was born in 1954 in Dangriga, Belize. In the late 1970s, Pen Cayetano began to compose songs in the Garifuna…