Aki Kumar left his home in Mumbai to work as a software engineer in Silicon Valley. But then, Kumar discovered American blues and everything changed.

The song "Gloomy Sunday" was written in 1933, in Hungary, and has been recorded by artists from Billie Holiday to Björk. Because of its subject matter, some artists have refused to record it. But a record label in Berlin asked musicians to record their versions — and the results are anything but gloomy.

Herb Alpert plays a horn that's kinda jazzy, kinda loungey, kinda south of the border mariachi. This is the sound he made with The Tijuana Brass. And Herb Alpert's trumpet is still very much alive. He's in the midst of a two-week residency at Café Carlyle in New York.

Trumpeter Arturo Sandoval once spent three months in jail in Cuba for listening to jazz over Voice of America.

So, who does it belong to? "Everyone and no one, really," says the 25-year-old crooner from New Zealand.

Debo Band is about as eclectic as musical fusion groups get. Well, now even more eclectic.

Electro-cumbia has been around for years. But La Yegros is taking it to a new level.

Some of Eddie Palmieri's earliest fans were members of the violent anti-government group, the Weather Underground.

CoCo Avenue is well-known to fans in LA's Koreatown. But Jenny Lyric and Jenna Rose are not Korean American; they're African American. And the duo are currently in Korea, wowing the crowds with their own brand of K-pop.

It's an effort to encourage people to support more local musicians.