tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54001057916758840722024-03-19T04:36:43.424-07:00El Palacio De La Musica LatinaTHE VERY BEST OF LATIN MUSIC AND DANCE IN VANCOUVERUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400105791675884072.post-61073641179776878572011-08-19T09:34:00.000-07:002011-08-19T09:35:41.900-07:00El Sonero Del Mundo: Oscar D'LeonOscar Emilio León Somoza, better known as <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Oscar D'León, "El Sonero Del Mundo" (Singer of the World)</span> is a Venezuelan musician who became internationally famous for his salsa music. One of his most popular and well known song is "Llorarás," which he recorded in 1975 with his group <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">La Dimensión Latina, </span>a salsa band<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span>he,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span>Together with percussionist José Rodríguez and trombone players César Monge and José Antonio Rojas, formed in 1972.<br />
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Four years later, D'León quit the group and created <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">La Salsa Mayor.</span> With La Salsa Mayor he recorded the merengue standard "Juanita Morell", a version that became a huge radio hit in Puerto Rico.<br />
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He later founded La Crítica in 1978 in memory of the legends of Cuban Rumba, such as Miguelito Valdés. For a while, D'León would alternate singing with both orchestras, giving him enough flexibility to stay working constantly. This also gave him an opportunity of inviting some of his personal musical heroes (such as key members of the Sonora Matancera and Daniel Santos) occasionally onstage during live presentations.<br />
He is known as El Sonero del Mundo ("the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_(music)">Son</a> Singer of the World") or as El Sonero Mayor ("the Great Son Singer"), a title he's quick to defer to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismael_Rivera">Ismael Rivera </a>out of respect for the late Puerto Rican salsa singer.<br />
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Because of successful tours throughout America and Spain, D'León was the first latino to sign a contract with the BBC.<br />
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Oscar D'Leon's charity work has been praised. He has traveled to Colombia to aid "desplazados" (people seriously displaced from their homes, land, or work due to guerrillas, paramilitaries, or the government). He has a wife and several children who are all musically talented like their father. His son Yorman plays with him in his band and has even recorded with Oscar in the studio. They sang the song "Padre e hijo" together on Oscar's 1992 album titled "El Rey De Los Soneros".<br />
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His other son Jimmy sings and plays bass, while daughter Irosca plays piano and dances. His daughter Adiaroz has also shown signs of talent as well.<br />
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In 2003 Oscar D'León suffered 3 heart attacks while performing in a festival in Martinique: one while onstage and two more at the hospital. According to D'León's physician, high cholesterol was the culprit. On Dec 20th 2009, he suffered yet another heart attack, but he has since recovered.<br />
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Adapted from: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_D'Le%C3%B3n">Wikipedia</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400105791675884072.post-28482238779278877182011-08-12T08:29:00.000-07:002011-08-12T08:29:47.621-07:00Dia Alegre: Festival of NationsMany of Greater Vancouver's local talents performed at Dia Alegre, Festival of Nations/Festival del Popoli at the Our Lady of Sorrows Parish, this August 1st. Many North Americans equate Latin music and dance simply with Salsa, or Latin Pop, and are unaware of the many colors and diverse styles the continent has to offer. It has been a real pleasure to watch the literally and metaphorically colorful Latin Music and Dance culture presentations. The following is but a small sample of the presentations by local, professional and amateur groups and artists.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cuban salsa style is most similar to the original form of salsa rooted in Cuba . It is characterized by Afro Cuban style body movement which includes body isolation and hip movement. Cuban style salsa does not have many fast spins. Instead the movement is very circular as opposed to linear and partners tend to travel around each other. The hip movement is more noticeable in this style and stems from the pumping of the knees. The footwork is quite simple - the complexity lies in the arm work which requires the follower to have limber, flexible arms. Cuban style salsa is considered "male dominated" in the sense that the leader tends to be more showy and will create a greater push/pull feel for the follower then many other styles. Most Cuban style dancers tap on the pauses which are on the 4 th and 8 th beats if the dancers dance on 1. However, Cuban style salsa dancers do not always stay on the 1 beat and tend to stray depending on where the music takes them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif;">Miami style salsa evolved from the Cuban style of salsa but is a more difficult and technically advanced style of Cuban salsa. Advanced Miami salsa moves tend to be intricate and pretzel-like and require a flexible follower to execute the moves. Many of the Miami moves are the same as Casino Rueda moves and the style is still more circular than linear. Open breaks or the Guapea basic (leader and follower break back and then push off eachother) with a tap are the most common basic steps in Miami style salsa. Cross body lead variations are common but are executed in a more circular fashion.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Casino Rueda (meaning salsa wheel) is a group dance which originated in Havana , Cuba in the 1960s by a group called Guaracheros de Regla. In this dance, couples dance in a circle while one dancer, designated as "The Caller", provides hand signals or calls out the moves which will be executed by every couple in the circle simultaneously. Many of the Casino moves involve swapping or switching partners which makes the dance tricky to execute and spectacular to watch. Rueda is very popular in Cuba and Miami and has gained popularity all over the world. Cuban Rueda tends to be more playful with easy to follow fun moves while Miami Rueda has many complicated turn patterns and requires memorization and skill to execute. Many callers will know anywhere from 150-300 moves so memory, speed and accuracy is a key to ensuring the circle is not broken. The advantage of learning Casino Rueda is that all moves learned in the Rueda circle can be danced one on one with a partner adding to a dancer's repertoire of moves.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cuban salsa style is most similar to the original form of salsa rooted in Cuba . It is characterized by Afro Cuban style body movement which includes body isolation and hip movement. Cuban style salsa does not have many fast spins. Instead the movement is very circular as opposed to linear and partners tend to travel around each other. The hip movement is more noticeable in this style and stems from the pumping of the knees. The footwork is quite simple - the complexity lies in the arm work which requires the follower to have limber, flexible arms. Cuban style salsa is considered "male dominated" in the sense that the leader tends to be more showy and will create a greater push/pull feel for the follower then many other styles. Most Cuban style dancers tap on the pauses which are on the 4 th and 8 th beats if the dancers dance on 1. However, Cuban style salsa dancers do not always stay on the 1 beat and tend to stray depending on where the music takes them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif;">Miami style salsa evolved from the Cuban style of salsa but is a more difficult and technically advanced style of Cuban salsa. Advanced Miami salsa moves tend to be intricate and pretzel-like and require a flexible follower to execute the moves. Many of the Miami moves are the same as Casino Rueda moves and the style is still more circular than linear. Open breaks or the Guapea basic (leader and follower break back and then push off eachother) with a tap are the most common basic steps in Miami style salsa. Cross body lead variations are common but are executed in a more circular fashion.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Casino Rueda (meaning salsa wheel) is a group dance which originated in Havana , Cuba in the 1960s by a group called Guaracheros de Regla. In this dance, couples dance in a circle while one dancer, designated as "The Caller", provides hand signals or calls out the moves which will be executed by every couple in the circle simultaneously. Many of the Casino moves involve swapping or switching partners which makes the dance tricky to execute and spectacular to watch. Rueda is very popular in Cuba and Miami and has gained popularity all over the world. Cuban Rueda tends to be more playful with easy to follow fun moves while Miami Rueda has many complicated turn patterns and requires memorization and skill to execute. Many callers will know anywhere from 150-300 moves so memory, speed and accuracy is a key to ensuring the circle is not broken. The advantage of learning Casino Rueda is that all moves learned in the Rueda circle can be danced one on one with a partner adding to a dancer's repertoire of moves.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">xote: a basic style, danced close together in a left-left-right-right movement, and has no spinning or variations;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">forró-love: similar to xote, but with a strong influence from zouk;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">universitário: the most popular style outside Nordeste, much like the xote, but with the partners moving forward and backward, much like traditional Bolero. It contains many variations of movements;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">miudinho: the man dances with his left side slightly tilted, his left hand on the woman's waist and her both her hands around his neck. Danced in the same place (mobility can be gained through spinning), has a lot of hip movements;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">puladinho/manquinho: is danced with the man's right leg still and his left leg marking the beats on the ground, while the woman with her left leg still and her right leg moving (the partners can exchange the leg positions, although it's not common);</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">merenguinho: the partners move along the sides, with movements similar to Merengue dance;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">cavalguinho: much like the puladinho, but with man and woman marking both their legs on the ground in alternate tempos, as if riding a horse.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Xote originally has its roots in the schottische dance.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Baião</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">baião/pé-de-serra: basically a style of xote, but with the partners tilting to the sides and moving their legs less to follow the faster rhythm;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">cacau: comes from Paraíba, in which the partners dance slightly away from each other in very fast leg movements;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">amassa-cacau: a variation of cacau from Ceará, it's danced less close and demands a lot of hip movements, with the legs mimicking a person squeezing cacao</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">valsado: danced close together, consists of moving along the sides, crossing the legs in front of each other;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">valsadão: same as valsado, but danced slightly away from each other. It is, together with universitário, the richest style in terms of movements and variations;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">forrófieira: a newer style, mixes the traditional forró with steps and influence from Samba de Gafieira, and it has become quite popular in Rio de Janeiro and some parts of Nordeste.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Arrasta-pé</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">arrasta-pé: can only be danced to its own style, much like a very fast xote, but alternatly marking the beats on the ground with both legs.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Miudinho and puladinho can also be danced to baião music and even to arrasta-pé, but in the latter the leg work is so intense that it's impracticable. Some people also like to include brega/calypso in the forró category, because this dance has suffered much influence of forró throughout the decades, but it's danced to its own rhythm (not to be mistaken with Calypso music).</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">[edit]Steps</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Forro dancing styles are informally often grouped into two main "families", simply for practical reasons: The older Nordestino (North-eastern) type of Forro and the Universitário (University) Forro that developed later in the South.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Nordestino forro is danced with the couple much closer together, with their legs often inter-twined and a characteristic sideways shuffle movement. Because of the intimacy, there are not as many step variations in this style.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Universitário forro, with its origins in the big southern cities of Brazil, is the more popular style outside of the north-east. Its basic step is forward-backwards - slightly similar to traditional Bolero or Salsa. With more space between the pair, many more moves, steps and turns are possible than in Nordestino styles. The more common steps include:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Dobradiça - the couple opens to the side;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Caminhada - simple step of the couple to the front or the back;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Comemoração - balancing step, with the man's leg between the ladies';</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Giros - a variety of turns, both simple and ones involving both dancers;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Oito - a movement of both dancers around eachother, side by side.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Universitário forro supposedly evolved from (and is still very similar to) the pé-de-serra/baião styles, while Nordestino is used to refer to the styles more like the original xote.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Forró is a kind of Northeastern Brazilian dance that developed from European styles of folk music such as "Chula" and "Xotis" (term that originated the derivate "Xote"), as well as a word used to denote the different genres of music which accompanies the dance. Both are much in evidence during the annual Festa Junina (June Festival), a part of Brazilian traditional culture which celebrates some Catholic saints. The most celebrated day of the festival is known as São João.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The most accepted theory puts forró as a derivative of forrobodó, meaning "great party" or "commotion". This is the view held by Brazilian folklorist Câmara Cascudo, who studied the Brazilian Northeast through most of his life. Forrobodó is believed to come from the word forbodó (itself a corruption of fauxbourdon), which was used in the Portuguese court to define a dull party.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Another theory often heard popularly in Brazil is that the word forró is a derivative of the English expression "for all" and that it originated in the early 1900s. English engineers on the Great Western Railway of Brazil near Recife would throw balls on weekends and classify them as either only for railroad personnel or for the general populace ("for all"). This belief was somewhat reinforced by a similar practice by USAF personnel stationed at the Natal Air Force Base during World War II, but it is not possible because before the USAF went to Natal, the name "Forró" was already in use.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">There is a third theory that it also comes from the number of the engine that the English engineers used as they roamed the tracks of the railroad supervising the construction, "40", " Four-oh" that was corrupted by the Brazilians into "Forró".</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i>In a quick note, "forró" in the same written way (with the accented o) in the Hungarian language means "burning hot" and in the argo meaning "funky" or "cool". In the 1940's, there were thousands of Hungarian emigrants arriving to South-America.</i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Forró is the most popular genre in Brazil's Northeast. It is the name of the dance. Different genres of music can be used to dance the forró. Traditionally, all of these music genres uses only three instruments (accordion, zabumba and a metal triangle). The dance also become very different as you cross the borders of the Northeast into the Southeast. As part of the popular culture it is in constant change. The dance known as college forró is the most common style between the middle-class students of colleges and universities in the Southeast, having influences of other dances like salsa and samba-rock. The traditional music used to dance the forró was brought to the Southeast from the Northeast by Luiz Gonzaga, who transformed the baião (a word originated from baiano and assigned a warm-up for artists to search for inspiration before playing) into a more sophisticated rhythm. In later years, forró achieved popularity throughout Brazil, in the form of a slower genre known as xote, that has been influenced by pop-rock music to become more acceptable by Brazilian youth of Southeast, South and Center-West.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">[edit]Themes</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Forró lyrics are usually about love and romance, passion, jealousy, or reminiscing about an ex-lover. They often are about Northeastern themes and the longing or homesickness (saudade) that was often experienced during migrations in search of work. An example of this are the lyrics of a folkloric, anonymous song, very popular in the Northeast and made famous across the country by Luiz Gonzaga, "Asa Branca" (the literal translation is White Wing; there is a recent American version played by Forro in the Dark featuring David Byrne) in which the singer says he will return home when the rains fall again on the dry, barren land of Northeast. They will know he is coming when they see a certain white winged bird of the savannah (sertão) that only arrives when it rains.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">[edit]Artists</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Luiz Gonzaga and Jackson do Pandeiro are two of the most traditional forró composers. Major forro musicians include Elba Ramalho, Geraldo Azevedo, Accioly Neto, Trio Nordestino, Dominguinhos, Eliane, Marinês, Falamansa, Trio Virgulino, Sivuca, Pertúcio Amorim, Santanna, Rastapé, Geraldinho Lins, João do Vale, Flávio José, Trio Forrozão, Jacinto Silva, Arlindo dos Oito Baixos, Santana, Vicente Nery, Jorge de Altinho, Arleno Farias, Nando Cordel, Aldemário Coelho, Delmiro Barros, and others like Nelio Guerson & Carlos Guerson</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Styles of Forró</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">There are three rhythms of forró, xote (a slower-paced rhythm), baião (the original forró) and arrasta-pé (the fastest of the three), and amongst these, many styles of dancing, which varies from region to region, and may be known by different names according to the location. Forró is danced in pairs, usually very close together, with the man's left hand holding the woman's right hand as in the Waltz, his right arm around her back and her left arm around his neck; Other styles may require to stay partially away, or in a considerable distance, only holding their hands up the shoulders. Influences from salsa and other Caribbean dances has given mobility to forró, with the woman - and occasionally the man - being spun in various ways, although it's not mandatory to spin at all, and more complex movements may prove impossible to be executed in the usually crowded dancing area of forrós. Follows below a list of the most popular styles of forró in Brazil:</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400105791675884072.post-5660506473809836292011-05-12T07:36:00.000-07:002011-05-13T13:25:56.253-07:00Cumbia!<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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Traditional cumbia and its associated dance is considered to be representative of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: underline;" title="Colombia">Colombia</a>, along with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallenato" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Vallenato">Vallenato</a>. Cumbia originated from the Caribbean coast of eastern Colombia, with folkloric variants in<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Panama">Panama</a> from where it spread gaining particular popularity in Mexico, Argentina, and the Andean region. Cumbia began as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtship" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Courtship">courtship</a> dance practiced among the African slave population that was later mixed with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Europe">European</a> instruments and musical characteristics. Cumbia is very popular in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andean_states" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Andean states">Andean region</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cone" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Southern Cone">Southern Cone</a> and was until the early 1980s more popular in these regions than <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsa_(dance)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Salsa (dance)">salsa</a></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">During the mid-20th century, Colombian musicians such as Pacho Galán and Lucho Bermudez created a more refined form of Cumbia that became very popular through all of Colombia and Latin America. This period is known as "The Golden Age of Cumbia".</span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Due to the diversity of Latin America, Colombian Cumbia has undergone major changes as it mixed with the regional music styles of several countries (especially in Ecuador, Peru and Mexico). 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Also it is associated with </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barranquilla%27s_Carnival" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Barranquilla's Carnival"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the Carnival of Baranquilla</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. Modern forms of cumbia are also combined with other genres such as </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallenato" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Vallenato"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">vallenato</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronica" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Electronica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">electronica</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> or</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Rock music"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">rock</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. This mixing of genres is found in the music of modern artists such as </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Vives" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Carlos Vives"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Carlos Vives</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomba_Est%C3%A9reo" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Bomba Estéreo"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Bomba Estéreo</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andres_Cabas" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Andres Cabas"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Andres Cabas</span></a></span></div></div><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.17em; padding-top: 0.5em; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="editsection" style="float: right; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cumbia&action=edit&section=7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Edit section: Costa Rica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">edit</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">]</span></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Costa_Rica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Costa Rica</span></span></span></h3><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A very famous song in the Costa Rican cumbia, known around the world, is "</span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jugo_de_Pi%C3%B1a&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Jugo de Piña (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Jugo de Piña</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">". Modern cumbia </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_versions" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Cover versions"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">cover versions</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> of the song exist with today's instruments.</span></span></div></div><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.17em; padding-top: 0.5em; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="editsection" style="float: right; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cumbia&action=edit&section=8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Edit section: Nicaragua"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">edit</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">]</span></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Nicaragua"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Nicaragua</span></span></span></h3><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Nicaragua became a stronghold of Cumbia music during the 1950s and 1960s. The country has its own variation of cumbia music and dance.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbia#cite_note-2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">[3]</span></a></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Mostly known for its cumbia chinandegana in the Northwestern section of the country, it has also seen a rise in cumbia music artists on the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Caribbean"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Caribbean</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> coast like Gustavo Layton.</span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</span></div></div><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; color: black; font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.17em; padding-top: 0.5em; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="editsection" style="float: right; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cumbia&action=edit&section=9" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Edit section: Panama">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Panama">Panama</span></span></h3><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Panamanian cumbia is found specially in the provinces of Veraguas, Los Santos, Herrera, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Panama"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Panama</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, (cumbia chorrerana) and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Darien"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Darien</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (cumbia darienita) and the precursor of modern popular folk music. In this country, cumbia is played with pujador (or llamador) drum, caja drum, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accordion" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Accordion"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">accordion</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Violin"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">violin</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, pito flute and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mejoranera" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Mejoranera"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">mejoranera</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> guitar. The female cumbia dancers wear polleras and usually dance with ignited candle in the hand. Out of the borders of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Colombia"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Colombia</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Panama"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Panama</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> is the only country where the cumbia is a dance with strictly folklore and cultural character.</span></span></div></div><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.17em; padding-top: 0.5em; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="editsection" style="float: right; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cumbia&action=edit&section=10" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Edit section: Peru"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">edit</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">]</span></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Peru"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Peru</span></span></span></h3><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Peruvian cumbia, particularly from 1960s to mid-1990s, is generally known as "Chicha", although this definition is quite problematic as both Peruvian cumbia and Chicha currently co-exist and influence each other (good examples include Agua Marina's popular cover of Los Eco's "Paloma Ajena" and Grupo Nectar's cover of Guinda's "Cerveza, Ron y Guinda"). Peruvian cumbia started in the 1960s with groups such as </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Los_Destellos&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Los Destellos (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Los Destellos</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, and later with </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Juaneco_Y_Su_Combo&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Juaneco Y Su Combo (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Juaneco Y Su Combo</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Los_Mirlos&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Los Mirlos (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Los Mirlos</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Shapis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Los Shapis"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Los Shapis</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cuarteto_Continental&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Cuarteto Continental (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Cuarteto Continental</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Diablos_Rojos" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Los Diablos Rojos"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Los Diablos Rojos</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pintura_Roja&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Pintura Roja (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Pintura Roja</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chacalon_y_la_Nueva_Crema&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Chacalon y la Nueva Crema (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Chacalon y la Nueva Crema</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grupo_Nectar&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Grupo Nectar (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Grupo Nectar</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. Some musical groups that play Peruvian cumbia today are: </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Agua_Marina&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Agua Marina (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Agua Marina</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Armonia_10&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Armonia 10 (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Armonia 10</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agua_Bella" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Agua Bella"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Agua Bella</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, and </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grupo_5&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Grupo 5 (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Grupo 5</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. These groups would be classified as Cumbia but often take songs and techniques from Chicha and </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huayno" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Huayno"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Huayno</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (Andean Music) in their stylings or as songs (see Armonia 10's "Quise Morir"). </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Fantasma_(Peruvian_band)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Grupo Fantasma (Peruvian band)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Grupo Fantasma</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> was a Peruvian-Mexican cumbia group. Andean Cumbia, is a style that combines </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andean_music" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Andean music"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Andean music</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and cumbia. This style has even become popular in Mexico, as some groups like </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grupo_Saya&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Grupo Saya (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Grupo Saya</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> claim to be </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Cumbia andina mexicana</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, Mexican Andean Cumbia.</span></span></div></div><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.17em; padding-top: 0.5em; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="editsection" style="float: right; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cumbia&action=edit&section=11" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Edit section: Mexico"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">edit</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">]</span></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Mexico"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mexico</span></span></span></h3><div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 2em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Main article: </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_cumbia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Mexican cumbia"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mexican cumbia</span></a></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In the 1940's Colombian singer </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luis_Carlos_Meyer_Castandet&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Luis Carlos Meyer Castandet (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Luis Carlos Meyer Castandet</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, emigrated to Mexico where he worked with the Mexican orchestra director Rafael de Paz. He recorded what many people think was the first cumbia recorded outside of Colombia, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">La Cumbia Cienaguera</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. He recorded other hits like </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mi gallo tuerto</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Caprichito</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, and </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Nochebuena</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> . This is when Cumbia began to be popularized in Mexico. From 1952 to 1954 </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucho_Bermudez" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Lucho Bermudez"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Lucho Bermudez</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> lived in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Mexico City"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mexico City</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> where he met and recorded with </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perez_Prado" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Perez Prado"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Perez Prado</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_More" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Benny More"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Benny More</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In the 70s </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniceto_Molina_y_Los_Sabaneros" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Aniceto Molina y Los Sabaneros"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Aniceto Molina</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> also emigrated to Mexico, where he joined the group from </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrero" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Guerrero"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Guerrero</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La_Luz_Roja_de_San_Marcos&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="La Luz Roja de San Marcos (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">La Luz Roja de San Marcos</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> , and recorded many popular tropical cumbias like </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">El Gallo Mojado</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">El Peluquero</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, and </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">La Mariscada</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. Also in the 70s </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigo_Tovar" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Rigo Tovar"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Rigo Tovar</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> became very popular with his fusion of Cumbia with </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballad" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Ballad"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ballad</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Other popular Mexican Cumbia composers and interpreters are </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Laure&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Mike Laure (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mike Laure</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Che" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Chico Che"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Chico Che</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Efren_David&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Efren David (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Efren David</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La_Tropa_Vallenata&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="La Tropa Vallenata (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">La Tropa Vallenata</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grupo_Ca%C3%B1averal&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Grupo Cañaveral (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Grupo Cañaveral</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Los_Angeles_Azules&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Los Angeles Azules (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Los Angeles Azules</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Celso_Pi%C3%B1a&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Celso Piña (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Celso Piña</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Super_Grupo_Colombia&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Super Grupo Colombia (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Super Grupo Colombia</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grupo_Saya&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Grupo Saya (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Grupo Saya</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La_Internacional_Sonora_Skandalo&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="La Internacional Sonora Skandalo (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">La Internacional Sonora Skandalo</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grupo_Luz_de_Luna&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Grupo Luz de Luna (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Grupo Luz de Luna</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amandititita" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Amandititita"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Amandititita</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">,Angeles de Charle and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Bronco" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Grupo Bronco"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Grupo Bronco</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> to name a few.</span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Nowadays Cumbia is played in many other different ways: Cumbia andina mexicana, Cumbia Norteña, Tecno-Cumbia, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbia_sonidera" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Cumbia sonidera"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Cumbia sonidera</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, Cumbia with Ska and Reggae.</span></span></div></div><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.17em; padding-top: 0.5em; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="editsection" style="float: right; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cumbia&action=edit&section=12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Edit section: Argentina"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">edit</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">]</span></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Argentina"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Argentina</span></span></span></h3><div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 2em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Main article: </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_cumbia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Argentine cumbia"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Argentine cumbia</span></a></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Argentina"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Argentina</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, due to its identity crisis, there is a social divide that is exemplified by the </span><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbia_villera" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Cumbia villera"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">cumbia villera</span></a></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> phenomenon that represents and resonates with the poor and marginalized dwellers of </span><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_miseria" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Villa miseria"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">villas miseria</span></a></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanty_town" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Shanty town"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">shanty towns</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slum" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Slum"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">slums</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">). Argentinian cumbia lyrics typically glorify </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Theft"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">theft</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_abuse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Drug abuse"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">drug abuse</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. Pablo Lezcano, ex-member of Amar Azul and founder of Flor Piedra and Damas Gratis is known to be the creator of the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbia_villera" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Cumbia villera"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">cumbia villera</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> "sound". However, it must be noted that a lighter form of cumbia enjoyed widespread popularity in Argentina during the 1990s (see </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_cumbia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Argentine cumbia"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Argentine cumbia</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">). Antonio Rios (ex-Grupo Sombras, ex-Malagata) is a good representative of the Argentinian cumbia from the 1990s. The emergence of cumbia as a massively popular form of music in Argentina came perhaps with the release of Tarjetita de Invitacion by Adrian y Los Dados Negros (from </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujuy" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Jujuy"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Jujuy</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, northern Argentina) in 1988 which was certified platinum, a first back then for a cumbia act.</span></span></div></div><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.17em; padding-top: 0.5em; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="editsection" style="float: right; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cumbia&action=edit&section=13" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Edit section: Bolivia"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">edit</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">]</span></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Bolivia"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Bolivia</span></span></span></h3><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Ronisch" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Los Ronisch"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Los Ronisch</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, the Cumbia ambassadors of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Bolivia"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Bolivia</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, are one of the most popular Cumbia bands in South America. The press have called this band "the box-office record breakers" due to its vast popularity among people in Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador and other countries.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-_3-0" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbia#cite_note--3" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">[4]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbia#cite_note-4" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">[5]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbia#cite_note-5" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">[6]</span></a></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> The cumbia sound from Bolivia usually incorporates </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saya" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Saya"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">saya</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> beats and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecnocumbia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Tecnocumbia"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">tecnocumbia</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. Another important cumbia band from Bolivia that peaked in popularity in the 1990s but remains highly popular is the band Maroyu.</span></span></div></div><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.17em; padding-top: 0.5em; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="editsection" style="float: right; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cumbia&action=edit&section=14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Edit section: Chile"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">edit</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">]</span></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Chile"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Chile</span></span></span></h3><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It is one of the most popular dance forms in the country. It is widely danced at parties and gatherings. Chile has a long development history of its own style: the </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chilean_Cumbia&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Chilean Cumbia (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Chilean Cumbia</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sonora_Palacios&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Sonora Palacios (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Sonora Palacios</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> is one of the most successful orchestras of this genre. However, Cumbia's popularity has been declining since the 1990's, and since the success of </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggaet%C3%B3n" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Reggaetón"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">reggaetón</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> in early 2000's, Cumbia has lost the preference of the popular sectors of society. Nowadays, Cumbia is considered a backward music style partly due to its old fashioned lyrics and its degeneration into</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbia_villera" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Cumbia villera"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Cumbia villera</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> in Agentina and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbia_sonidera" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Cumbia sonidera"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Cumbia sonidera</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> in Mexico.</span></span></div></div><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.17em; padding-top: 0.5em; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="editsection" style="float: right; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cumbia&action=edit&section=15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Edit section: El Salvador"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">edit</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">]</span></span><span class="mw-headline" id="El_Salvador"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">El Salvador</span></span></span></h3><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Orchestras such as </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Orchestra_San_Vicente&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Orchestra San Vicente (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Orchestra San Vicente</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Los_Hermanos_Flores&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Los Hermanos Flores (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Los Hermanos Flores</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grupo_Bravo&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Grupo Bravo (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Grupo Bravo</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> perform cumbia with basic instrumentation, replacing accordion with </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_instruments" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Brass instruments"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">brass instruments</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and</span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodwinds" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Woodwinds"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">woodwinds</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, and using traditional percussion and </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_bass" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Electric bass"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">electric bass</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"</span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chanchona&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Chanchona (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Chanchona</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">" is a neoligism to describe a musical band that follows a cumbia rhythm and uses instruments such as the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accordion" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Accordion"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">accordion</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_bass" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Electric bass"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">electric bass</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conga" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Conga"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">conga</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCira" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Güira"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">güira</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, and the occasional keyboard. This genre is popularized by artists such as </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La_Chanchona_de_Tito_Mira&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="La Chanchona de Tito Mira (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">La Chanchona de Tito Mira</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La_Chanchona_de_Arcadio&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="La Chanchona de Arcadio (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">La Chanchona de Arcadio</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. Chanchona sometimes also features a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marimba" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Marimba"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">marimba</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, made famous in the genre by </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fidel_Funes&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Fidel Funes (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Fidel Funes</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></div></div><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.17em; padding-top: 0.5em; width: auto;"><span class="editsection" style="float: right; font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cumbia&action=edit&section=16" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Edit section: United States"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">edit</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">]</span></span><span class="mw-headline" id="United_States"><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">United States</span></div></span></h3><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Lobos" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Los Lobos"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Los Lobos</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Locos_por_Juana&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #cc2200; text-decoration: none;" title="Locos por Juana (page does not exist)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Locos por Juana</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozomatli" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Ozomatli"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ozomatli</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Fantasma" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Grupo Fantasma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Grupo Fantasma</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Super_Reyes" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Los Super Reyes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Super Reyes</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nando_y_Solja_Kingz" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Nando y Solja Kingz"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Nando y Solja Kingz</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, La Internacional Sonora Show, Chicha Libre, Kumbia Kings , </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selena_y_Los_Dinos" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Selena y Los Dinos"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Selena y Los Dinos</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, Candelaria and the Very Be Careful are famous musicians based in the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="United States"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">United States</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> that have performed and/or specialize in cumbia.</span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400105791675884072.post-48299251640082840552011-05-12T06:48:00.000-07:002011-05-13T13:25:55.549-07:00CELEBRANDO LAS INDEPENDENCIAS DE COLOMBIA Y PERU CON EL GRUPO GALE<div id="contentArea" role="main" style="color: #333333; 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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5-0UI9Ify3I" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400105791675884072.post-88629926642526481602011-01-13T11:36:00.000-08:002011-01-13T11:36:26.443-08:00History of Salsa Part I. Cuba, 1790-1928<span style="font-size: x-large;">"Danzon"</span> is one of the many roots of what we know as Salsa dance today. Contra Danze (Country Dance) from England, was "imported" by the French who fled the Haitian Revolution in the 1790s to Cuba, where it become one of the original "ingredients" of what eventually became known worldwide as "Salsa" Danzon was once known as the "official" dance of Cuba, and although it is no longer widely danced there, it survives in Mexico.<br />
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It is hard to believe today, but Danzon was once considered a "scandalous" dance. If you would like to learn more about Danzon, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danz%C3%B3n">check this link</a> on Wikipedia.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Guanguanco</span><span style="font-size: small;"> is one of the Cuban Rumbas, and another influence on modern "Salsa" dance and music originated in Africa, most notedly from the Bantu "Yuka" dance.Following is this video of a traditional Somali Bantu dance (Yuka is now extinct) and a cuban Guanguanco performance, see if you find the similarities and differences. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Cuban Son, </span><span style="font-size: small;">another "ingredient" of the original Salsa, is a relatively "recent" music and dance, developed in the early 1900, reached Havana around 1910, and went "international" around 1930. Cuban son, has its roots in Spanish (Gypsy) Guitar and Cancion and the aforementioned African and Afro Cuban music and dance. Cuban Son is believed to be a pivotal in "mainstreaming", linking Afro Cuban influences and the dances of "higher society". </span><br />
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It is often believed, that Salsa (or what eventually evolved into modern Salsa music and dance) was first "discovered" and exported from Cuba to the USA during the years of prohibition in the 1930s and 1940s. However, Cuban Son reached Europe first; through radio broadcasts, in 1928 El Mancinero, performed here by Don Azpiau in 1930, became the first international hit, and was wildly popular in Europe, especially in France.<br />
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In the 1930s and 1840s, Cuban rythms reached (some would say, invaded) the United States, starting the second chapter in the History of Salsa.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400105791675884072.post-63188404105695799932010-11-28T13:28:00.000-08:002010-11-28T13:28:55.763-08:00Flooding in Colombia brings destruction and disease<div class="auxi"><div class="CUERPO">Más de 20 muertos, 30.000 damnificados, 300 casas destruidas, decenas de carreteras y puentes inservibles y centenares de hectáreas de cultivos anegadas, dejaron las fuertes lluvias caídas esta semana en Colombia, informaron las autoridades.<br />
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Los departamentos de Santander y Norte de Santander, en el nordeste, y el Tolima, oeste, son los más afectados por los torrenciales aguaceros, que se iniciaron el pasado martes 8.<br />
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El Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales (Ideam, estatal) advirtió que las lluvias se prolongarán durante los próximos días.<br />
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La mayoría de víctimas mortales se registraron en Bucaramanga, Girón, Lebrija, Betulia y San Vicente de Chucurí, en el departamento de Santander, donde algunos ríos, como el Frío, el Oro y e Sogamoso, se salieron de su cauce y destruyeron barrios ribereños.<br />
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Algunos sectores de Bucaramanga y de sus municipios vecinos fueron declarados por las autoridades como zona de desastre.<br />
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El gobernador de Santander, Hugo Aguilar Naranjo, dijo que varios de los municipios de su territorio están incomunicados debido a que decenas de deslizamientos cortaron las carreteras.<br />
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Los ministros del Interior, Sabas Pretelt, y de Protección Social, Diego Palacio, así como el director de la Oficina de Atención de Emergencias, Eduardo José González, visitarán este domingo las zonas afectadas.<br />
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Los altos cargos evaluarán los daños y las necesidades más sentidas para iniciar los envíos de ayuda oficial a los afectados.<br />
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"Estamos invitando a las autoridades para que incrementemos las medidas que impidan la construcción de asentamientos humanos en zonas de riesgo", dijo el ministro del Interior.<br />
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Las fuertes lluvias en Colombia y Venezuela, según el Ideam, se originan por la presencia de un frente frío sobre el Caribe.<br />
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La entidad advirtió sobre los riesgos de más deslizamientos en zonas de ladera y desbordamiento de algunos ríos. (EFE)<br />
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<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/colombia/7945433/Dramatic-rescue-during-flash-floods-in-Colombia.">Dramatic rescue captured by amateur video</a><br />
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<strong><h2>Flooding in Colombia brings destruction and disease</h2>By Marta Lucía Moreno Carreño<br />
The floods damage everything in the village. Septic tanks overflow, contaminating the water that runs through the streets like rivers, and bringing diseases like diarrhoea, colds and dengue fever.<br />
The water brings with it other dangers too, including snakes looking for a dry place to escape from the flood.<br />
"I've lost count of how many I've killed in my house. I don't wait to see if they are poisonous or not, I kill them all," says Miguel, a young man whose modest dream is to get a temporary job in the oil wells near Barrancabermeja.<br />
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<span class="pagesubhead">A forgotten village</span><br />
Puerto Casabe is mainly a port for fishermen and boatmen, and many of its residents used to make their living ferrying people from one side of the river to the other. But that was before the bridge between Barrancabermejo and Yondó was built. Today it is a <em>vereda</em> – a small community – whose poverty clashes with the wealth of the oil wells surrounding it.<br />
"The river is life and beauty, and when it's not angry it gives us many fish," says Luz Mary, a fisherwoman from the village. "When everything floods, the gas and electricity go off, and we have to go looking for soggy firewood so we can cook. Afterwards we're left with the headaches, the itchiness, the colds."<br />
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<span class="pagesubhead">Preventing illness</span><br />
UNICEF is working to help treat and prevent illnesses among those affected by the flooding. In partnership with the University of Santander, UNICEF has provided humanitarian assistance in health, nutrition and hygiene practices to 4,000 children affected by the emergency throughout the Magdalena Medio region. <br />
Nurses from the Industrial University of Santander are teaching health practices, which is especially appreciated by the villagers. These days, the nurses are among the few people that return to see how they are doing, and they are grateful for the moral support, and for the information the nurses provide about caring for their health and their children, and about hygiene measures they can take in emergency situations. <br />
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PUERTO CASABE, Colombia, 17 December 2008 – In Puerto Casabe there are 60 families, 98 children, 100 adults and a lot of water. Every year, the majestic Magdalena river floods their wood and brick homes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400105791675884072.post-2777262400816770562010-11-24T11:42:00.000-08:002010-12-01T07:33:03.249-08:00Grand Christmas Latin Dance Party/Tremendo Rumbón Navideño: A GOOD CAUSE TO SALSA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmje6WjMPv6mWABVLXQEP5pIBg3D4R_EHljnQL17WED29QnT7uS0H3mFO5MlTh55Pz5fSBkv7Ubx3R0vZNebxhR9zkk25H4KtqDzI0KewWb7ZciaHnMy8kYuLzthwiVk7S5OmaeTKI8yCv/s1600/Navideno+En+Espanol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmje6WjMPv6mWABVLXQEP5pIBg3D4R_EHljnQL17WED29QnT7uS0H3mFO5MlTh55Pz5fSBkv7Ubx3R0vZNebxhR9zkk25H4KtqDzI0KewWb7ZciaHnMy8kYuLzthwiVk7S5OmaeTKI8yCv/s640/Navideno+En+Espanol.jpg" width="496" /></a></div>As many of you know, in conjuction with our regular Noches Calenas/Cali Nights, we are raising funds for two GOOD CAUSES to Salsa, the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Locally, and for selected charities and projects in Latin and Central America Globally.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">At our December 19th, GRAND CHRISTMAS LATIN DANCE PARTY, we will be accepting donations for the International Red Cross of Colombia, to aid the victims and persons affected by the recent floods in many regions of Colombia. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">You can donate on line, or bring your cash, cheque or money order donations to the party</span>. (Please, make cheques and money orders payable to <span lang="ES-AR" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-AR;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja Colombiana)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As always during our regular Cali Nights, we will continue to collect non perishable food items and cash donations for the<span style="color: #45818e;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.foodbank.bc.ca/main/"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Greater Vancouver Food Bank</span>,</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> and for this event only, we chose another GOOD CAUSE to Salsa locally: the <span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://www.lmcb.ca/">Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau.</a></span></span><br />
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Bring your donation of a WRAPPED gift item for the Christmas Bureau, or GENTLY USED coats for children at any time between 1PM and 1AM to the location of the event, 728 Kingsway, Vancouver BC (Hungarian Hall). Please attach a note to your wrapped gift indicating if the gift is for a boy, a girl, and what age group is it intended for. Please do not forget the often over looked pre-teens and teenagers when choosing your gift, or the coats.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">As our thanks for your donation, and support of our GOOD CAUSES to SALSA, we are offering free admission for either the day, or night event, when you bring a gift, a coat, or a minimum donation of $10.00 to either of our GOOD CAUSES.</span><br />
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We are offering free admission to children (up to 12years and their accompanying adults (one adult per two children) for our day event, 1PM to 7PM, as well as a complementary Baby Steps to Salsa lesson and mini dance for children between 1:30 and 2:30PM and a complimentary (with cover)beginner salsa lesson from 2:30 to 3:30PM.<br />
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In addition, we have a limited number of FREE day passes available for youth and teenagers (12-19 years old). If you know anyone, or work for an organization that could use those tickets, please send an e-mail to GitanaGitana@live.com or call 778-397-1339 as soon as possible. <br />
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For more info on the event, please check our <a href="http://elpalaciodemusicalatina.blogspot.com/p/events.html">event page</a> or find us on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1413936145#!/event.php?eid=165216533510044">facebook. </a><br />
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We have world class instructors, performers, salsa festivals and events. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To celebrate and commemorate our Latin Dance Community, AND to raise funds for a Good Cause, in collaboration with <span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Ima<span style="color: magenta;">GINA</span>tion Photo Arts</span>, we are planning to create and release a </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Performers, Instructors, Salsa Dancers, Professionals, Volunteers, Event Organizers, Salsa Addicts are welcome to submit their bio and/or promotional material and information for your regular ongoing events to be included in the Calendar. Don't miss your chance to be Ms. or Mr. Salsero or Salsera of of the Month!</span><br />
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Take this as an opportunity for shameless self promotion, advertising, a pat on the back, giving back to the community, or whatever gets your Mo-Jo flowing. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Submission deadline is November 30th, 2010</span>. Calendars will be available for sale online mid December 2010 to February 2011, and will be available at various vendors, services and Salsa Events all around the Greater Vancouver Area.<span style="font-size: large;"> 100 percent of proceeds will go to our Good Causes: The Greater Vancouver Food Bank locally, and Casita Belen of Colombia globally</span>.<br />
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For more information, rules, and submissions, send an e-mail to La Gitana at <a href="mailto:GitanaGitana@live.com">GitanaGitana@live.com</a><br />
or call: 778-397-1339Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400105791675884072.post-31789348598534334082010-10-18T13:21:00.000-07:002010-10-18T13:21:51.815-07:00Organic Oranges and Hothouse Apples: Its all Good for You!It has been said, that all ballroom dances are "elevated folk dances": <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuet" title="Minuet"><span style="color: #0645ad;">Minuet</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrille" title="Quadrille"><span style="color: #0645ad;">Quadrille</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonaise" title="Polonaise"><span style="color: #0645ad;">Polonaise</span></a>, <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pas_de_Gras&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Pas de Gras (page does not exist)"><span style="color: #ba0000;">Pas de Gras</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazurka" title="Mazurka"><span style="color: #0645ad;">Mazurka</span></a>, are all folk dances that first crossed over,( after being regulated, sterilized and "civilized" ( to be danced in aristocratic and upper class balls of Europe. Over time,with the development of Dance Sport and with the emergence of new dance styles from swing to rock and roll to Hip Hop and Jumpstyle, "nightclub dancing" and so on, the boundaries between ballroom dance and "social dance" have blurred. <br />
Modern International Ballroom and International Latin Ballroom dances are less restricted and allow more individual interpretation and expression.<br />
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In the meantime, especially in Europe, traditional folk dancing has became nearly extinct at "mainstream" dances and parties: with the exception of rural areas, it is more likely to see ballroom and social dancing at weddings, festivals and parties, than traditional folk dancing.<br />
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In Latin America, the trend sometimes developed in reverse: most of the Latin dances now danced in the ballrooms, at clubs, and social dancing events were "invented" in Cuba, where African Rhythms, the sounds and movements of Carnival were incorporated with the Spanish Guitars and ballroom dance elements. In fact, most Latin Dance styles known today, Salsa, Cha Cha, Son, Danzon, even Tango have their origins in Cuba. <br />
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When the first radio waves in 1909 hit America with the sounds of music played by the first Cuban Big Bands and Orchestras, musicians in the U.S. took note, (literally) and Latin Jazz emerged. With the U.S. soldiers positioned in Cuba getting "infected" with the rhythms and sounds, and, during the prohibition area, Americans partying in large numbers in Cuba, where alcohol was legal, Latin Dance and Music crossed over to the mainland, where it quickly spread to Puerto Rico, Colombia, and eventually, all the way south of the Latin American continent, becoming an integral part of the Latin American Culture.<br />
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Simultaneously being incorporated into street and "folk" dancing, while being refined and regulated, Latin Rhythms now are part of the International Latin and Dance Sport divisions and they are completely integrated into Latin Culture. To complete the circle, Latin Dance, ballroom, or "ethnic", crossed back over the oceans again to become a very popular in Europe and in Asia: no matter where you are, chances are you will find a Latin Dance event any weekend anywhere: L.A. Cuban, Miami, Colombian....your choice and it is sometimes a very hard choice too!<br />
The following videos demonstrate the closing and widening of gap between "Ballroom" and "Street" Latin Dance. <br />
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Competitors in an International Latin Ballroom Competition dance to Cuban rhythms by Celia Cruz, "Queen of Salsa"<br />
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Various couples dance "street salsa" in Cuba<br />
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It is like comparing apples with oranges, isn't?<br />
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Another excellent example of this migration is Colombian, Cali Style Salsa: originating in Cuba,<span style="background-color: yellow;"> Salsa was "imported" </span>to Colombia by way of New York by Puerto Ricans, Cali style salsa incorporates acrobatic elements of North American, especially L.A. Style salsa, with the distinctively intricate and super fast footwork. Colombian, and especially Cali Style Salsa (Salsa Calena) has become such an integral part of Colombian culture, that it was recently declared to be "National Cultural Treasure" of Colombia.<br />
In turn, graduates and professional Salsa dancers of Cali Ballets and Academies of Salsa are consistently winning international Salsa competitions world wide and the style is being incorporated more and more into "mainstream" L.A. style and European Style Salsa.<br />
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A good example of L.A. Style Salsa: this couple dances still very different;y from the "International Ballroom Style", but it is easy to see the way they incorporate certain elements of Dance Sport acrobatics, and Ballroom into their routine. <br />
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In contrast, "pure" Salsa Calena is focused so much on the footwork and styling that there is no partner required at all!<br />
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And here is an example of Salsa Calena that seems to be the winning combination at international salsa championships world wide: L.A. Style showmanship and drama, Dance Sport style acrobatics, and the same intricate, intense, highly technical footwork that made Cali famous:<br />
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At the end...how can one even begin to compare these styles? What is better? Organic oranges that ripened on the tree, but might not look so perfect on the outside? Or hothouse apples force ripened in a warehouse, beautiful and appealing to the eye but without real "sabor" or taste? Depends where you are, what is the season and what your taste is in fruits, I say.<br />
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Many would argue, that when it comes to dance as a sport or performance, there is no such thing as an "unbiased" or "purely objective" judgement, and I agree. Weather watching, learning, judging, or critiquing, everyone experiences dance on a deeply personal, biased and subjective way, and this is great: Dance, let it be ballroom, folk, primitive, or eloquent, moves all of us on an instinctive level, and not only allows us to express emotions, but it is naturally a highly personal and emotional experience.<br />
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So, enjoy your oranges, apples, bananas, strawberries, and all the fruits that are available in your area, hothouse or straight off the tree: ITS ALL GOOD FOR YOU! Enjoy!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400105791675884072.post-42937739253271846872010-10-12T11:14:00.000-07:002010-10-13T11:54:37.553-07:00Noche Calena/Cali Night In Vancouver: A WIN, WIN, WIN, WIN Situation!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4qOCtH6ilLwAbjjD37nH_IuhAfcQbDG8VxkTU2hobw5_zHWuexdJvKOrIfiGG0r31foYNn4YUFx7Z7_LgCK2uV2QoUIKF7mg7gl1Tb-URe36_hV7fkBuHCg2vmYeGqhtWzeU_EKtDg0mp/s1600/AD_for_Comunidad_Latina%5B2%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4qOCtH6ilLwAbjjD37nH_IuhAfcQbDG8VxkTU2hobw5_zHWuexdJvKOrIfiGG0r31foYNn4YUFx7Z7_LgCK2uV2QoUIKF7mg7gl1Tb-URe36_hV7fkBuHCg2vmYeGqhtWzeU_EKtDg0mp/s640/AD_for_Comunidad_Latina%5B2%5D.jpg" width="492" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Victims/Survivors of Hurricane Karl in Mexico:</span> We are accepting donations on line and at the event on behalf of the Mexican Community and organizers of<a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=131284400256401"> various fundraiser events</a> for this cause. <br />
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If Marijuana is the gateway to hard drug addictions, Merengue is the "Weed" of Latin Dances: Most of us who were not born in Latin America were introduced to and got addicted to Latin Dancing by learning Merengue first, perhaps because its simplified version, "one-two, one-two, left-right, left-right" is easy to learn. In fact, I always tell to students, and heard other instructors do the same, that "if you can walk, you can dance merengue". Students eventually learn to twist and turn each other into quite intricate patterns and pretzel like contractions, but for a lot of dancers even at the more advanced level, the foot work and rhythm remains rather uncomplicated.<br />
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Like most dances of Latin America, the styles of Merengue danced from region to region, from bario to bario, from one family to the next are diverse, unique and highly personal. There are many "subtipes", either origins or derivatives of Merengue: from the Dominican bottle dance to Merengue Parease, (Parean Merengue) danced in Brazil, to Merengue Ripiao, which is very closely related to Punta and Reggeaton dances. Merengue is very popular in both Latin, Central and North America, in fact, at times Merengue is even more popular than Salsa on the airways.<br />
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Of course, there is nothing wrong with sticking to the basics, but for the more adventurous, here is a sample of different merengue music and dance styles:<br />
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Merengue Paerese (Parean Merengue from Brazil)<br />
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This video is a tribute to Merengue: Viva El Merengue featuring the best, most well known singers of the genre: <br />
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Michael Jackson's Billie Jean Merengue Remix<br />
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And Carrie, the Merengue dancing dog!<br />
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Here is Dominican Merengue dancing on a bottle:<br />
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And here is Perico Ripiao as it is played and danced on a balcony somewhere in the Dominican Republic<br />
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Last week, Hurricane Karl hit the coast of Veracruz state as a Category Three hurricane, leaving 18 dead, more than 40,000 displaced by the flooding of rivers and ditches, an undetermined number missing and thousands displaced across Veracruz, Tabasco, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas.<br />
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Although Hurricane Karl has dissapiated over Mexico, tropical rain is still causing raising water levels and floods through many parts of the affected region and there is danger of further landslides.<br />
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Karl was the worst storm to hit Veracruz in over 50 years, affecting as many as 500,000 people. A city official said there had not been a storm like it since Hurricane Janet in 1955. <br />
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These are some of the photos of the devastation and conditions in the region, some received by members of the local Latin Community, directly from friends and family members from the region.<br />
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With the local Latin Community sprang to action, there are several fundraising efforts under way, and we will post information on them as they become available. <br />
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<tr><th class="label">Location</th><td class="data">Taqueria DOÑA CATA'S <div>5076 Victoria drive</div><div>Vancouver, BC</div></td></tr>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Noches Calenas, October 15th, November 12th: Fundraiser Event</span><br />
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In addition to our two existing GOOD CAUSES TO SALSA (Vancouver Food Bank and Casita Belen), we are going to <span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">accept cash donations for the Hurricane Karl Fund</span> and partial proceeds of our fifty/fifty raffle with door prices will go toward the local relief fund established for this cause.<br />
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You may also <span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">donate online on this site, by paypal</span>: find the donate button in the side bar, chose the amount you wish to donate, and include HURRICANE KARL FUND in your address line when making a donation.<br />
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I will keep you posted as new events and ways to participate, donate, volunteer and get involved will become available. <br />
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<strong><span><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=myoli-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B00192L0KC&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe></span>Punta</strong> is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garifuna_music" title="Garifuna music"><span style="color: #0645ad;">Garifuna music</span></a> and dance style performed at <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration_(party)" title="Celebration (party)"><span style="color: #0645ad;">celebrations</span></a> and festive occasions. Contemporary punta, including Belizean <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punta_rock" title="Punta rock"><span style="color: #0645ad;">punta rock</span></a>, arose in the last thirty years of the twentieth century in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize"><span style="color: #0645ad;">Belize</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honduras" title="Honduras"><span style="color: #0645ad;">Honduras</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala"><span style="color: #0645ad;">Guatemala</span></a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Rosenberg_0-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punta#cite_note-Rosenberg-0"><span style="color: #0645ad;">[1]</span></a></sup> It also has a following in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua" title="Nicaragua"><span style="color: #0645ad;">Nicaragua</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Salvador" title="El Salvador"><span style="color: #0645ad;">El Salvador</span></a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Mexico" title="Southern Mexico"><span style="color: #0645ad;">Southern Mexico</span></a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States"><span style="color: #0645ad;">United States</span></a>. It is a circle dance in duple rhythm: one couple dances in the middle of the circle a while the other participants sing and clap their hands. Punta uses the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_and_response" title="Call and response"><span style="color: #0645ad;">call and response</span></a> patterns in songs. Lyrics may be in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garifuna_language" title="Garifuna language"><span style="color: #0645ad;">Garifuna</span></a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belizean_Kriol_language" title="Belizean Kriol language"><span style="color: #0645ad;">Kriol</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" title="English language"><span style="color: #0645ad;">English</span></a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language"><span style="color: #0645ad;">Spanish</span></a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Greene_1-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punta#cite_note-Greene-1"><span style="color: #0645ad;">[2]</span></a> (wikipedia)<span></span></sup><br />
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<iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=myoli-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B000LE1C5W&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe>As any tipical Latin American music and dance, La Punta is an excellent example of "evolution of dance". Even in its "modern" form as it is danced on the street, at fiestas, and in the discoteques of Latin America, Punta is like a bit of Zouk, African Tribal Dance, Merengue, Soca and Reggaton and perhaps this versatility is what explains its popularity: almost any body can dance the Punta, but there is always room for improvement and showing of personal skills and style. From absolute beginners to Punta Masters, La Punta has something to offer to everyone.<br />
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Although <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">V.I.P. Table or Bottle Service</span> is very popular in Cali's Salsa Discoteques, for the benefit of those who never had the opportunity or desire to experience this service first hand, I would like to explain what exactly does a V.I.P. Table Reservation get you, should you, and why should you get one for your party.<br />
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Of course, there will be unreserved tables available where you can sit in between dances (we know, you will not be sitting much this night) and <i>you do not NEED to buy V.I.P. Table Service for any number of people who wish to sit together at an unreserved table.</i><br />
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You do not NEED so why would <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">You WANT V.I.P Table Service</span></i>?! If you have five or more people in your party, or you can "hook up" with friends and come togehter, V.I.P Table Service is not only <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">convenient</span>,</i> but in fact<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">will save you money</span></i>. At the Palacio, a<i> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b>V.I.P. Table will cost $100.00 per table</b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b>. </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">This<b> </b>i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">ncludes cover charge, Reserved Seating, V.I.P. Host Service (no standing in line for YOU!), one pitcher of either cranberry or orange juice, one pitcher of iced water, and EITHER two 750.00ml bottles of vine (one red, one white), or one (750ml) bottle of Canadian Bird (Grey Goose) <b>or</b> Fidel Castro (Baccardi)<b> or</b> Tequila of your choice as well as table service all through the night for a minimum of five, and a maximum of ten people in your party is included. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Y</span></span>ou will not miss out on even one good song during the night standing in line at the bar while everyone else is dancing. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> (</span>Service charges. i.e. tips for your server, are <b>no</b>t included)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">. </span><br />
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There is <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: magenta;">no minimum number of people</span></span></i> that can reserve a V.I.P. Table, but the $100.00 Table Fee covers a maximum of ten people. If there are<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: magenta;"> more people in your party,</span> by any means, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: magenta;">they can share your table and bottle</span> but they will have to pay their own cover.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Warning!</span></span>: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">demand for V.I.P. tables is very high! </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">. Please keep in mind, that there are only a LIMITED number of tables available for this purpose: we want to make everyone feel welcome, and have a table to sit at, and V.I.P. table would not be special, if it was not exclusive!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Reserve your VIP Table Service: by calling 778-397-1339, by e-mail <a href="mailto:gitanagitana@hotmail.com">gitanagitana@hotmail.com</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> or send a private message on our Facebook Page, El Palacio De La Musica Latina.</span><br />
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To reserve a table in advance, we will require a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">fifty percent deposit no later than October 9th, 2010</span>. You may pay by cash, money order or pay pal, contact 778-397-1339 or send an e-mail to gitanagitana@live.com for details.<span style="background-color: red;"> Pr</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: red;"><span style="background-color: red;">e reserved</span> V.I.P. tables will be held until 10PM</span>(in other words, you and your party must arrive before 10PM, or else, we reserve th e right to "bump" you; you will not have to pay cover charge to come in, but you and your party will not get the reserved table, bottle service, or the other perks. If you do not show up at all, we will miss you dearly, you will miss all the fun, and your reservation deposit will not be refunded.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400105791675884072.post-85240397342968901932010-09-18T17:04:00.000-07:002010-09-18T17:33:33.988-07:00Free Passes for Cali Night, plus WIN a V.I.P. Pass ($100;00 value)Simply e-mail <a href="mailto:gitanagitana@live.com">gitanagitana@live.com</a> with your name, phone number and a valid e-mail address to receive a printable pass for free entry at the next Cali Night in Vancouver, on October 17th, 2010. <br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Celebrate <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Central American Independence on September 17th at the Hungarian Cultural Center, 728 Kingsway in Vancouver</span> with the best of authentic Latin Music (Salsa, Cumbia, Merengue, Bachata, Boogaloo, Pachanga, Vallenato, and more) Latin Food, and Fiesta </span><br />
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</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Have your cake and eat it too! There will be a cake presented for each country at midnight, as well as re-enactment of <a href="http://www.inside-mexico.com/featureindep.htm" style="color: #ff2a3c; text-decoration: underline;">"El Grito"</a> to honor Mexican and Central American Independence<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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Continuemos celebrando el Dia de Independencia de Mexico en Sabado Septiembre 18 en Luna Loca Mexican Cantina!<br />
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