Trumpeter and composer Gabriel Alegria, one of Peru’s most influential jazz musicians, has made it big on the U.S. jazz scene with his 2008 tour featuring music rich with the heritage of Afro-Peruvian beats and guest appearances by some of today’s top names in jazz. His Peruvian leg of the tour, set to begin on […]

Singer, actress and four-time Grammy winner Olivia Newton-John, best known for her movies “Grease” and “Xanadu,” announced Thursday that she recently married, twice — the first time in a secret spiritual ceremony on a picturesque mountaintop in Peru’s jungle, and then in followup nuptials in Florida.
Details of the June 21 Peruvian ceremony and follow-up U.S. […]

The National Geographic Society insists Yale University turn over to Peru all artifacts taken from Machu Picchu by American historian Hiram Bingham nearly a century ago.
Though Yale recognized Peru’s title to the artifacts by signing a memorandum of understanding last September, negotiations are now stalled as Machu Picchu’s centennial “discovery” anniversary looms ahead.
“We were […]

The host of Peru’s most popular tabloid TV scandal show has been ordered to serve four months of community service and pay a fine of 5,000 soles, or about $1,778, in civil reparation for defaming a producer from a rival television station.
“I will sweep the streets like Naomi Campbell, or perhaps go to Santa Monica […]

Peru’s Foreign Minister has turned film critic, urging Peruvians to avoid seeing Stephen Spielberg’s latest blockbuster “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”… or was it “the Kingdom of the Geographically Challenged?”
“You shouldn’t see it,” José García Belaunde said in comments to CPN Radio on Thursday, which were widely reported in Peru’s newspapers […]

Leading Afro-Peruvian lawmaker talks on culture and identityUploaded by peruviantimes

Celebrated Peruvian folk singer Dina Páucar, also known as the “Beautiful Goddess of Love,” is receiving the distinguished roster of UNICEF goodwill ambassador today during a ceremony hosted by the United Nations.
Páucar, an iconic example of social change for Andean Indians and mixed-race mestizos and known for her philanthropy, is one of Peru’s biggest music […]

An all night art festival open to the general public, following on the pattern of the White Night events in Paris, Rome and Madrid, takes place in the Miraflores district of Lima tonight, Friday 16, from 8pm to 5am. The event – titled Deliveri: the policies of exchange– has been organized as a grand finale […]

By Shane Greene
A couple of months ago I was sitting in yet another needlessly bureaucratic meeting at Indiana University. Taking advantage of a lull in the administration speak, a senior colleague turned to me and asked, “So, what are you working on now?”
“I’ve just started a relatively recent project on Afro-Peruvian politics and state […]