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Tex-Mex cumbia; Tejano or Tex-Mex music, a popular music style that fuses elements of cumbia with other genres of Mexican and American origin that developed in Texas and Mexico in the 20th century. Cumbia rap, a variant of cumbia that is popular in the United States and Latin America that includes elements of hip-hop and rap
Cumbia (Spanish pronunciation:) is a folkloric genre and dance from Colombia. [1] [2] [3]The cumbia is the most representative dance of the coastal region in Colombia, and is danced in pairs with the couple not touching one another as they display the amorous conquest of a woman by a man. [4]
The Mexican cumbia has adapted versions of Colombian music like Peruvian cumbia or Argentine cumbia, among others.This diversity has appeared in different ways. For example, originally the northern cumbia (cumbia norteña) was usually played with accordion and consists of tunes with few chords and slower speed than original cumbia.
Today Cumbia is played in many different ways, and has slight variations depending on the geographical area like Cumbia sonidera, Cumbia andina mexicana, Cumbia Norteña, Tecno-cumbia. Popular Mexican Cumbia composers and interpreters include Rigo Tovar y su Costa Azul , Celso Piña , Pilar Montenegro , Ninel Conde , Los Caminantes , and Selena .
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Although it is a genre derived from cumbia, it receives the Colombian term [1] of cachaca, as a version of the song Por el amor de Claudia by the Colombian composer Guillermo Buitrago [2] became popular in the 1970s when it was recorded by La Sonora Dinamita. The chorus of the song went: La cachaca tiene un Buey, La cachaca tiene un Buey,
Tropical music (Spanish: música tropical) is a term in the Latin music industry that refers to music genres deriving from or influenced by the Spanish-speaking areas of the Caribbean. [1] It includes the islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and the Caribbean coastal regions of Colombia, Mexico, Central America and Venezuela.
The album was recorded in several studios in United States, United Kingdom, Spain and Colombia. [6] It explores the genre of cumbia as well as its history, according to Vives, its a homage to indigenous people from Colombia and its musical richness, he has said that "we have always thought that the joy of our music comes from our African ancestors, but in reality, our indigenous peoples are ...