Michael Ramos, the Austin, Texas musician who records as Charanga Cakewalk, grew up bilingual and bicultural and made a name for himself as a sideman playing with John Mellencamp, Paul Simon, and ...

For information on ordering La Familia, visit UNC’s Charanga Carolina page. A short charanga primer: Essentially dance bands that combine African percussion with European strings and woodwinds, ...

Continuing its success of presenting programs that celebrate the popular genres in Latin music, including Boogaloo and Mambo, the Hostos Center presents a nostalgic look back at the Charanga era, ...

An audience packed with cheering Cubans greeted David Calzado and his Charanga Habanera at S.O.B.’s on Friday night, in a rare and welcome American appearance by one of Cuba’s top bands signaling, ...

August 26, 2010 • We left no stone unturned in our search across the Latin world for musicians whose work infuses a rich musical tradition with rock, hip-hop and dance.