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Cumbia Radio 📻 Listen 🎧 to the best radio stream available. Wehavegathered the best internet radio stations from the web. Thisradioapp is loaded with numerous stations playing the best songsfromall around the world. Listen to your favorite music nowfromeverywhere on your android device. Radio Player Features: 1)StreamMusic In The Background 2) Stable Streaming 3) SocialNetworking 4)Song Info RadioPlus radio apps are constantly updated!EnjoyListening ;) ******************** ALSO AVAILABLE ONTABLETS******************** Due to all the different androiddevices, itis very challenging providing support for every singledevice. Ifyou have any technical difficulties or questions thenplease don'thesitate to contact the RadioPlus team before postingany negativefeedback in the comments. Thanks for your continuedsupport! If youlike the radio app, please leave us a review! Thanksin advance!******************** THE ORIGIN & HISTORY********************Cumbia is a popular music genre across LatinAmerica that developedin Colombia's Caribbean coastal region andPanama from the culturaland musical mixture of Native Panamaniansand Colombians andPanamanians, as well as African slaves and theSpanish duringcolonial times. Cumbia started out as a courtshipritual danceperformed by Africans. It later became blended withAfrican andEuropean instruments and musical characteristics, aswell asAmerindian steps. Cumbia is very popular type of music intheSouthern Cone and the Andean region, and is much more popularthansalsa in several parts of the aforementionedregions.Interestingly, up until the middle part of the mid-20thcentury,Cumbia has been deemed as an unsuitable dance, performedmainly bythe lower social ranks. Traditionally, Cumbia music isplayed onlywith Cumbia drums. As years past, accordions were added,thenreplaced by versatile instruments like conga, timbales,guira,tamboras, and claves. Guitar, caja snare drum, bassguitar,clarinet, the mejoranera and the Rabel (Panama), modernflute havealso been used. The so called “Golden age of Cumbia” hasbeenreached during the middle part of the 20th century, whenColombianartists like Lucho Bermudez and Pacho Galan refined Cumbiawhichbecame widely popular across Colombia and Latin America. Therichdiversity of Latin America influenced the significant changesinColombian Cumbia through the blending of regional musicalstyles.Today, Cumbia’s popularity has remained intact throughtheproliferation of digital Cumbia or “nu-cumbia” andBrazilianCumbia.