From rock icons to R&B legends, a bluegrass picker who will never be forgotten, and a bright young rap star from Atlanta, music fans sadly lost some talented individuals in March. As we move forward ...

The late Aurelio Martínez grew up in the Garifuna village of Plaplaya on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. He was a ...

Well-known Garifuna musician Aurelio Martinez, who held dual citizenship in Honduras and the United States, was among the dead, according to officials.

Aurelio Martínez, the longtime ambassador ... and African ancestry found in Central America and parts of the Caribbean. Martínez made a career change in 2005 when he became the first Afro ...

Honduran ambassador of Garifuna music and politician died at 55 in a plane crash. Martínez's official Facebook page confirmed ...

Honduras plane crash: At least 12 people have been killed after a plane crashed off the Caribbean coast of Honduras on Monday evening, officials said. Among one of the victims was Aurelio Martinez, ...

In a tweet, he wrote, “I was very upset to learn of the death yesterday of Aurelio Martinez, one of our most popular @RealWorldRec artists, in a plane crash in the Caribbean. His music will ...

Aurelio Martínez, the celebrated Honduran ... The Garifuna people are descendants of Indigenous Caribbean tribes and enslaved Africans, who were exiled from St. Vincent and the Grenadines by ...

A MARTÍNEZ: Last year, one of those releases, "Landini," was named one of the best Latin American albums of all time by music journalists from the region. Aurelio Martinez was 55 years old. (SOUNDBITE ...

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) AURELIO MARTINEZ: Garifuna muse is - it's a special music. This culture come from a special mix with African people and Arawaks Indian in the Caribbean island ...