Amandititita (Amanda Lalena Escalante Pimentel) is a Mexican
cumbia
Cumbia refers to a number of musical rhythms and folk dance traditions of Latin America, generally involving musical and cultural elements from American Indigenous peoples, enslaved Africans during colonial times, and Europeans. Examples include:
...
singer and songwriter. She is the daughter of
Rodrigo Gonzalez.
She came to public attention in 2007 as a performer of what she called 'AnarCumbia', a style said to be entirely urban and a blend of rock, reggae, rap, and traditional
Mexican cumbia
Mexican cumbia is a type of cumbia, a music which originated in Colombia but was reinvented and adapted in Mexico.
Origins
The cumbia started in Colombia in the 1800s. In the 1940s Colombian singer Luis Carlos Meyer Castandet emigrated to Mexic ...
. She was signed by
Sony-BMG
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and released her first album,
''La Reina de Anarcumbia'' early in 2008. The single,
''La Muy Muy'' from this album, charted on
Billboard
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.
The release of her second album has been announced for 27 October 2009; "La Descarada" with songs of a similar style. In late 2013, she released "Mala Fama" where cumbia is now with modern pop. She has released her first book "13 Latas de Atun" (13 Tuna Cans). In 2015, Amandititita featured as a musical guest on the El Rey network's wrestling show
Lucha Underground
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Discography
*''La Reina de la Anarcumbia'' (2008)
*''La Descarada'' (2009)
*''
Mala Fama'' (2013)
*''Pinche Amor'' (2019)
External links
Interview in ''La Jornada''
Mexican women singer-songwriters
Mexican singer-songwriters
Singers from Tamaulipas
People from Tampico, Tamaulipas
Living people
1979 births
21st-century Mexican singers
21st-century Mexican women singers
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