This research focuses on the sociological study of the music of Tambora, through the history of artists of this musical complex. The Tambora is a complex musical dancing, singing and touches, expressing the feelings of the people bom on the banks of the Rio Grande de la Magdalena, at Mompox Depression waterfront sub-region of the Colombian Caribbean. The main objective of this research is to describe and understand from a sociological perspective transformations happening in the cultural practices of the Tambora, which generally shows a transition where cantadora, the dancer (a) and tamborero longer artisans and they are becoming true artists; ie as a holiday craft for recreational purposes, has become an art, and who perform this art are recognized as artists. Tambora artists, central theme of this research, are men and women who are very connected to their home territory; their lives, hopes and struggles have been waged in this geographic, natural, social and cultural context of the Mompox Depression. Over the past 20 years, the recognition of cantadora, tamborero and dancer, as true worshipers art Tambora, it is a process that has gone hand in hand with the consolidation of what we have defined as the World of Tambora.