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Andean music is a group of styles of music from the Andes region in South America. Original chants and melodies come from the general area inhabited by Quechuas (originally from Peru , Bolivia , Ecuador , Chile ), Aymaras (originally from Bolivia ), and other peoples who lived roughly in the area of the Inca Empire prior to European contact.
Los Incas, also known as Urubamba, are an Andean folk music group formed in Paris in 1956. Founded by the Argentine musicians Carlos Miguel Ben-Pott and Ricardo Galeazzi who was a jazz bassist, musical director of the group and the Venezuelans Elio Riveros and Narciso Debourg.
The instrumental version by Los Incas was used as the base track. The duo included the song on their 1970 album, Bridge over Troubled Water, and released it as a single in the US, where it reached number 18 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and number 6 on the Easy Listening chart, [5] in fall 1970, and peaked at number 11 on the Cash Box Top 100.
Jorge Cumbo (15 December 1942 – 28 October 2021) [1] was an Argentine musician who played the Andean quena flute, combining jazz and Argentine folklore.After early encounters with folklore under his mentor Chango Farías Gomez, and three years at the conservatory, Cumbo discovered the quena flute.
Los Askis perform the first set of the day on the Las Clasicas Stage at Besame Mucho Music Festival, March 2, 2024 at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. 1. A revivalist cultural spectacle ...
When Los Jairas appeared on the Bolivian music scene, they built on the ongoing process of folklorizing indigenous musical expressions, developing virtuosity on the iconic "Andean" instruments of quena, zampoña, and charango. They were one of the first nationally and internationally successful small Bolivian bands that performed what has been ...
Harawi is an ancient traditional genre of Andean music and also indigenous lyric poetry. Harawi was widespread in the Inca Empire and now is especially common in countries that were part of it, mainly: Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia. Typically, harawi is a moody, soulful slow and melodic song or tune played on the quena (flute).
In the 20th century, Peruvian music evolved further with criollo music gaining prominence and the rise of Andean fusion bands like Los Kjarkas and international stars such as Susana Baca, promoting Peru’s musical identity globally. Stories published in the 1950s claimed that Yma Sumac was an Incan princess, directly descended from Atahualpa.