How cumbia has shaped music across Latin America

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🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Whether you're from Ushuaia or East Los Angeles, you've likely heard cumbia blaring from a stereo. From our play friends at NPR's Alt.Latino, Jasmine Garsd and Felix Contreras talk about their common love of the musical backbone of Latin America.

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0:00.0	What's good, y'all? You're listening to Coat Switch. I'm Gene Demby.
0:03.2	Today, we are bringing you something to move and group to to get you a little two step on.
0:07.6	Well, I mean, I guess actually in this case, it's your fourth step because this is a conversation
0:13.6	about Kumbia and it comes from our play cousins at Art Latino and it's all about the history behind
0:19.6	this very danceable music genre. It's a dope conversation but I don't want to give too much away.
0:25.9	So I'm gonna just let them take it from here.
0:30.7	From NPR Music, this is Alt Latino. I'm Jasmine Garst.
0:34.9	And I'm Felix Contreras.
0:37.8	That is the sound of my youth.
0:39.8	No, that's the sound of my youth.
0:41.2	It's the sound of my youth.
0:42.8	Well, it's a testament to how enduring Kumbia music has been
0:48.0	throughout Latin America that that's the sound of your youth in California and 70 years later.
0:53.4	I don't think so.
0:56.2	It's the sound of my youth in Argentina.
0:59.1	You know, it's the sound, it's the sound of my parents' music.
1:01.9	It's the sound, it's like 1960s Kumbia from Mexico.
1:06.1	That's what this is. This is Kumbia del Sol.
1:08.0	And this particular song was like at every house party, every wedding,
1:13.2	in each time there were more than three chickenos you get together, this song came out.
1:17.1	This is Kumbia Music.
1:18.8	Kumbia is the musical backbone of Latin America.
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