Sound (cumbia)
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Sound is a music style from Chile that originates from cumbia
and draws influence from Argentine Cumbia villera
and Tecnocumbia
. Sound music is also known in Chile as Música Tropical. In deference to Tecnocumbia Sound has faster beat
. Sound music emerged in the 1990s in Chile and enjoyed some popularity until but was from the beginning a low-prestige music associated with the lower classes and since the mainstream entrance of reggaetón
in the 2000s it has lost a large part of its popular base.
Cumbia
Cumbia is a music genre popular across Latin America. The cumbia originated in the Caribbean coast of Colombia, where it is associated with an eponymous dance and has since spread as far as Mexico and Argentina...
and draws influence from Argentine Cumbia villera
Cumbia villera
Cumbia villera is a typically Argentine form of cumbia music born in the villas miseria around Buenos Aires and then popularized in other large urban settlements, is derived musically from Cumbia sonidera and Chicha Cumbia.-Origins:Ever since the 1930s there has been a strong migration from the...
and Tecnocumbia
Tecnocumbia
Tecnocumbia is a style of Cumbia were there is a fusion between electronic sounds generated by electronic musical instruments through electronic drums, the electric guitar, and . The "Tecnocumbia" was a word developed in Mexico to describe this type of music...
. Sound music is also known in Chile as Música Tropical. In deference to Tecnocumbia Sound has faster beat
Beat (music)
The beat is the basic unit of time in music, the pulse of the mensural level . In popular use, the beat can refer to a variety of related concepts including: tempo, meter, rhythm and groove...
. Sound music emerged in the 1990s in Chile and enjoyed some popularity until but was from the beginning a low-prestige music associated with the lower classes and since the mainstream entrance of reggaetón
Reggaeton
Reggaeton is a form of Puerto Rican and Latin American urban and Caribbean music. After its mainstream exposure in 2004, it spread to North American, European and Asian audiences. Reggaeton originated in Puerto Rico but is also has roots from Reggae en Español from Panama and Puerto Rico and...
in the 2000s it has lost a large part of its popular base.
Musical groups and artist that plays sound
- Los Shappis (Peru)
- Alegría de Augusto Bernardillo (Peru)
- Los Ovnis (Peru)
- Los Doberman (Peru)
- RafagaRáfagaRáfaga is one of the most important bands within the Argentine cumbia. Formed in 1994, they started playing in Argentine cumbia clubs and quickly gained popularity....
(Argentina) - Sonora Palacios (Chile)