Putumayo World Music releases Radio Latino.

Putumayo World Music has teamed with the non-profit organization United for Colombia in a fundraising effort to help rehabilitate child victims of landmines in the Putumayo River valley and throughout Colombia. Putumayo will contribute $1 from the sale of each Radio Latino CD, to United for Colombia, with an overall expected donation of more than $200,000 to benefit the country that now has the second highest number of landmine victims in the world after Afghanistan.

Radio Latino was launched with a momentous visit to Colombia last week ted in Colombia last by Dan Storper, founder & CEO of Putumayo, who returned after 30 years to this country to promote this release and to travel with the president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, to the region of Putumayo, which inspired the name of the company.

Special events on October 20th in Miami, Florida at the club Nikki Beach will take place with live performances by Sacha Nairobi and Javier Garcia, both featured on Radio Latino. This will be Putumayo’s first event in Miami and a portion of the proceeds from this event will be donated to United for Colombia as well.

The events continue in Puerto Rico November 3rd at Bamboobei in Piñones and November 4th at Bamboobei West in Isabela with Los Pinguos from Argentina, which are also featured in this collection.

On Radio Latino, Putumayo, returns to its Latin roots with this collection of contemporary musicians standing at the forefront of the thriving “Rock en Espanol/Latin Alternative” movement. Most of these musicians are household names within their home countries, but have yet to realize their full potential in the rest of the world. While acknowledging their heritage by intertwining traditional rhythms and instrumentation with elements of popular music, Latin musicians are demonstrating that you don’t have to sacrifice your cultural roots to appeal to a mainstream audience.