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 ...

The Garifuna people are descendants of Indigenous Caribbean tribes and enslaved Africans ... Martínez’s international profile ...

The Honduran musician brought the local Afro Caribbean genre to international attention and served as his country’s first ...

03/10/2025 March 10, 2025 The Garifuna people in Belize number around 100,000. International tourism companies are investing heavily in the Caribbean country, but little consideration is given to ...

The Honduran musician brought the local Afro Caribbean genre to international attention and served as his country’s first ...

The Garifuna people are descendants of Indigenous Caribbean ... another Garifuna artist from Belize. Palacio invited Martínez to perform at a Garifuna festival he organized, and the two recorded ...

The world lost one of the most powerful voices of the Garifuna community when Honduran musician Aurelio Martínez died in a tragic plane crash off the shore of Roatán, Honduras.

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