Rich in culture, music, and creativity, the Garifuna people came to Belize after receiving threats from British and French colonial militaries. Today, the heritage of their ancestors lives on ...

Andy Palacio, a singer and guitarist whose critically acclaimed music championed the vanishing language and culture of the Garifuna people of his native Belize and made him a cultural icon in the ...

Michel, who’s accompanying seven Collective members on their current tour, first encountered Garifuna music during visits to Belize and volunteer service at a school in the Central American country.

Multiple world tours and international music awards later, the Garifuna Collective “put Garifuna on the international map, and took Belize along with it,” says Laredo. Although Palacio passed ...

During his childhood in Belize, bassist Al Ovando grew ... Now, as an adult, he's the bandleader of the pioneering Garifuna Collective, a renowned music group that has taken the music of the ...

The members of the group, who come from all over Belize, sing in the Garifuna language, often all at once, and include call-and-response patterns in the African tradition, giving their music a ...

Their independent culture persists to this day in communities in Belize, Honduras, and neighboring nations, where their African-inspired language, customs and music are preserved and continue to ...

FirstWorks' two free outdoor concerts at the Roger Williams Park Bandstand feature the multigenerational Garifuna Collective with powerful Afro-Indigenous music from coastal Belize and Honduras on ...

Garifuna music incorporates sounds from African ... another Garifuna artist from Belize. Palacio invited Martínez to perform at a Garifuna festival he organized, and the two recorded the duet ...

Aurelio Martínez, the Honduran musician who championed his country’s Garifuna people (also known as the Garínagu) and brought their music to wider international attention, has died. Martinez ...