
Aurelio Martínez, Champion of Garifuna Music, Dies at 55
Aurelio Martínez, the Honduran musician who championed his country’s Garifuna people (also known as the Garínagu) and brought their music to wider international attention, has died. Martinez was one of thirteen people killed last night, Monday, March 17, in a small plane crash off the coast of the Caribbean island of Roatán. He was 55….