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LOS ANGELES -- Taylor Hawkins, for 25 years the drummer for Foo Fighters and best friend of frontman Dave Grohl, has died during a South American tour with the rock band. He was 50.There were no immediate details on how Hawkins died, although the band said in a statement Friday that his death was a “tragic and untimely loss.”Foo Fighters had been scheduled to play at a festival in Bogota, Colombia, on Friday night.

The news of the loss of one of the world’s great rock drum talents is still cresting on social media, as music greats lined up to pay tribute to Foo Fighter Taylor Hawkins, who died Friday night in Bogota, Colombia.

Michele Amabile Angermiller The musical community — including rock royals Ozzy Osbourne, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, the band Smashing Pumpkins and Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons of KISS — is mourning the death of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.Shortly after news broke that Hawkins died in Bogota, Colombia hours before the band was due to take the stage, tributes started pouring in on social media. A beloved fixture in Los Angeles, where he lived, along with the greater touring world, many shared memories and photos of Hawkins behind the kit along with heartfelt words of grief.“@TaylorHawkins was truly a great person and an amazing musician. My heart, my love and my condolences go out to his wife, his children, his family, his band and his fans,” wrote Osbourne on Twitter.

Taylor Hawkins, the drummer for the Foo Fighters, has died. The band announced it on Twitter.

EXCLUSIVE: Carolina Gaitán, the Colombian actress and singer who voiced Pepa in Disney’s Encanto and will perform at the Oscars on Sunday, is leading the cast of survival thriller Quicksand.

Miley Cyrus‘ private plane was struck by lightning in South America yesterday (March 23) and forced to make an emergency landing.The singer is currently in the middle of a tour of the continent, and played a show in Colombian capital Bogota on Monday night (March 21).When travelling to tonight’s (March 23) show in Paraguay as part of the Asuncionico Festival, her plane, which was carrying her band, crew, friends and family, hit bad weather and made an emergency landing after being hit by lightning.In a post to Instagram, Cyrus shared photos and videos of the aftermath, and revealed that nobody was hurt in the incident. The planned show in Paraguay has been cancelled but she is still due to play Lollapalooza Brasil on Saturday (March 26).“To my fans and everyone worried after hearing about my flight to Asunción.

Miley Cyrus' plane was forced to make an emergency landing after getting struck by lightning Tuesday night. The singer was traveling to Paraguay to headline day 2 of the Asunciónico festival, but her plans were canceled after the plane rerouted to safety. "To my fans and everyone worried after hearing about my flight to Asunción.

Karol G performed at a women’s prison in Bogota, Colombia. In a video that went viral, the singer performed her hit song “Bichota,” with the women around her singing along enthusiastically. Karol G was a part of Fundacion Accion Interna, a non-profit founded with the purpose of improving the quality of life of the incarcerated population in Colombia.Karol G will co-star alongside Sofia Vergara in the upcoming Netflix show ‘Griselda’Karol G poses with makeup-free and flawless dewy skin for a cover shootA post shared by Fundación Acción Interna (@fundacionaccioninterna)“Yesterday was a day we won’t forget.

Roberto Bentivegna, co-writer for the Ridley Scott-directed “House of Gucci,” developed most of the script over Zoom when he was stuck in Colombia during the onset of the pandemic. And yet, for a virtual screenwriting experience, it went off without a hitch.“The process was very smooth,” Bentivegna told TheWrap about the process of writing the script. “I read the script in February of 2019, and we spent a couple of months casting the movie,” he said.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Key Chilean projects being moved at this year’s European Film Market:AlisDirectors: Clare Weiskopf and Nicolás van HemelryckCasatarántula produced this Chile-Colombia-Romania doc along with Pantalla Cines and Defilm. Produced by Alexandra Galvis and Radu Stancu, it world premieres at Berlinale’s Generation 14plus sidebar.

DistroTV, a free ad-supported streaming television platform, is moving into original content with the global debut of a feature film, Escándalo Secreto: En Plena Cuarentena. The comedy feature, directed and written by Jorge Cano, will bow on February 25th.

BOGOTA, Colombia -- For decades renowned Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez kept the public from knowing about an intimate aspect of his life: He had a daughter with a Mexican writer, with whom he had an extramarital affair in the early 1990s.The closely guarded secret was published by Colombian newspaper El Universal on Sunday and confirmed to the Associated Press by two relatives of the Nobel Prize-winning author, who is famous for novels like One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.Márquez died in Mexico City in 2014, where thousands of his readers lined up to see his casket in a concert hall. He was married for more than five decades to Mercedes Barcha and the couple had two children named Rodrigo and Gonzalo.

Netflix has revealed plans to open a new office in Stockholm that will function as a hub for the region.

Netflix is to open an office in Bogota, Colombia, this year, the streamer has announced.

BOGOTA, Colombia -- With her pink cardigan and thick glasses, “Toothless Cindy” is becoming a musical sensation on Colombian public transport.When the music starts blasting from her portable speaker, the 69-year-old turns into a prolific rapper, whose rhymes crack up commuters on the Transmilenio, Bogota’s crowded and crime-ridden public bus system.

Edgar Ramirez shared a shocking revelation while promoting “The Undoing”, his upcoming HBO project with Nicole Kidman.

Song Joong Ki was filming in his upcoming project Bogota in Colombia when the Coronavirus crisis hit the country. Owing to the pandemic, the South Korean star was forced to return back home.

Morat bandmember Juan Pablo Villamil says he has tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) after traveling to Spain and Mexico.

Esteman has blessed hopeless romantics around the world with “Hasta Que Tu Me Quieras,” whose music video premieres on Billboard below.

On Saturday, Soda Stereo’s Gracias Totales tour kicks off at the El Campín stadium in Bogota, Colombia. The 16 concerts in 10 countries -- which Soda drummer Charly Alberti describes as shows “for being together one last time” -- will be Latin America’s most repercussive rock band’s first live appearances without Gustavo Cerati, the group’s late magnetic singer, lyrical composer and guitarist, who died in 2014 at the age of 55.