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How cumbia has shaped music across Latin America

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Kumbia Mexico's Back to the 1940s?

It's not that Kumbia eventually moved from Colombia all across Latin America, North and South. When it goes to Mexico, then it collides with what is there called Musica Tropicado. So Montuno, Wavanko, Danson,. Then you have the introduction of horns, saxes, clarinets, trumpets. And other forms of percussion that did not exist in the original Kumbia.

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