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The term marimba refers to both the traditional version of this instrument and its modern form. Its first documented use in the English language dates back to 1704. [1] The term is of Bantu origin, deriving from the prefix ma-meaning 'many' and -rimba meaning 'xylophone'. The term is akin to Kikongo and Swahili marimba or malimba. [2]
The marimba of Nicaragua distinguishes itself from the other forms of marimba in Central America by the way it is played. Nicaragua's marimba is played by a sitting performer holding the instrument on his knees. They are usually accompanied by a bass fiddle, guitar and guitarrilla (a small guitar similar to a mandolin). This music is played at ...
Towns also have wind and percussion bands that play during the lent and Easter-week processions as well as on other occasions. The marimba is an important instrument in Guatemalan traditional songs. The oldest documented use of marimba in the Americas dates to 1680 during celebrations at Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala.
Their influences include Colombian cumbia legend Andrés Landero, Mexican marimba groups such as Marimba Cuquita , Chicano music as Lalo Guerrero, whose song "Los chucos suaves" they perform, as well as American and British rock bands such as Green Day, the Misfits, The Clash, and Mexican rock bands like Belafonte Sensacional.
Palma was born in Esmeraldas on the north-west coast of Ecuador in 1927, but she was brought up in Borbon. She discovered the marimba music and the local poetry. She regards herself as an artist and folklorist, with a special interest in the marimba instrument that is known to the Chachi people.
Secretos became José José's first collaboration with Manuel Alejandro on album and went on to become the most popular of Jose José's career. In the first weeks of its release, it sold 2 million copies. and to date it has shifted 20 million copies worldwide, which makes it one of the best-selling albums in the world.
José Cecilio Corazón de Jesús y Pangilinan (November 22, 1896 – May 26, 1932), also known by his pen name Huseng Batute, was a Filipino poet who used Tagalog poetry to express the Filipinos' desire for independence during the American occupation of the Philippines, a period that lasted from 1901 to 1946.
Son jarocho ("Veracruz Sound") is a regional folk musical style of Mexican Son from Veracruz, a Mexican state along the Gulf of Mexico.It evolved over the last two and a half centuries along the coastal portions of southern Tamaulipas state and Veracruz state, hence the term jarocho, a colloquial term for people or things from the port city of Veracruz.