Afro-Colombian Music Offers Youths A Rhythmic Alternative To Drug Gangs

Harold Tenorio is the director of a folk music school in Tumaco, Colombia.

Currulao combines drums and marimbas and is popular along the country's Pacific coast where most of the population is Afro-Colombian. One verse goes: "We no longer have peace in our paradise."

(Image credit: John Otis/NPR)

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