Walter Goyburu is considered one of the local masters of Peruvian criolle music but from his respected neighborhood of Callao, Lima. Do not mistake this music to what they call creole music from New Orleans.
Goyburu’s version of the classic valz song Cenizas, originally by Emilio Visosa, was recently featured in the all star album La Gran Reunion, Los Guardianes de la Musica Criolla (’the great reunion, the guardians of creolle music’) which features 19 respected criolle music artists.  This album has been coined the Buena Vista Social Club of Peruvian …

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I met William at a stoplight in San Isidro as he was breakdancing for money. He was literally turning on his head to earn a living. This is an example of a great Peruvian guy earning a fair buck with his talents. Support the street arts worldwide. Give William some love at bboy257@hotmail

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Cumbia music in Peru had its golden age starting back in the 60’s with a style called Chicha. It took the Colombian cumbia roots but added the diverse Afro-Peruvian rhythms and Andean intrumental influences with a surf guitar sound, thus Peruvian cumbias became characterized as psychedelic.  Chichas became a thing of the past of course and the music became considered cheesy old people party music.
As of two years ago cumbia in Peru has once again taken the front seat as the popular music but with a more comercial sound.  Los …

I do not know the answer but it must be stopped.  We read and hear that domestic violence happens all over the world but we usually never see it and tend to ignore it.  It is hard to look at the pictures of teen pop star Rihanna after getting beat up by her pop celebrity boyfriend Chris Brown, but it should be a stark reminder to mature audiences that domestic violence must not be tolerated.  It took so much hate to injure someone’s face like that, let alone a woman.  …

Happy #giveprops day!  In lieu of retweeting and @replying to tweeps, blatantly tell your followers who to follow.
#giveprops to your favorite twitter personalities throughout the day by explicitly telling your followers to follow them and add ‘#giveprops’ at the end of your tweet. Presto! It’s that easy.
#giveprops will help us follow new cool twitter streams which we did not previously know about.  If someone gives you #giveprops, be honored, they enjoy your twitter company.
This is an experiement testing the love on Twitter and the following picture is the first result …