The New Chilean Cumbia also known as New Chilean Cumbia Rock (Spanish: ''Nueva cumbia chilena'', ''Nueva cumbia rock chilena'') is a

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cumbia music 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: ...

that originated in Chile in the early 2000s and that largely surfaced in mainstream media in 2009 and 2010. In contrast to older cumbias the lyrics of New Chilean Cumbia deals more with urban life and combines aspects of rock, hip hop and a wide variety of Latin American genres like

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, the son,

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, Latin-African music,

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and even folklore from the Balkans, like the

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, and Gipsy music. While the movement has various influences its roots lie in the Chilean cumbia tradition established by Orquesta Huambaly, Giolito y su Combo, Orquesta Cubanacán, La Sonora Palacios and Sonora de Tommy Rey, but in contrast to these bands the New Chilean Cumbia is aimed towards a younger public. The New Chilean Cumbia public comes often from the middle classes. The movement has been contrasted to the heavily aired and commercialized ''Chilean Romantic Cumbia'' whose commercially most successful acts are

La Noche La Noche is a Chilean cumbia band consisting of Gino Valerio, Alexis Morales, Ramiro Cruz, Sergio Taby Morales, Alexis Saldivar, Pablo Gato Martinez, Fernando Mambo Perez. Discography ;Studio albums *2000: ''Pasión caliente'' *2001: ''Te L ...

and

Américo Domingo Jhonny Vega Urzúa (born December 24, 1977, in Arica, Chile), commonly known as Américo, is a Chilean singer. He became known as the lead artist of Américo y la Nueva Alegría. He is the son of a locally known boleros singer, Melvin ...

. The New Chilean Cumbia is also distinct from the Argentine

Cumbia Villera Cumbia villera ( or ) (roughly translated as " slum cumbia", "ghetto cumbia", or " shantytown cumbia") is a subgenre of cumbia music originating in Argentina in the late 1990s and popularized all over Latin America and Latin communities abroad. ...

a genre that enjoys certain popularity in Chile and relies on synthesizers and focuses on marginal shanty town life. The most popular New Chilean Cumbia acts include:

Chico Trujillo Chico Trujillo are a New cumbia band merging cumbia, ska, reggae and rock, among other styles. The band formed in 1999 in Villa Alemana, Zona Central, Chile, following a tour that lead singer – known as "Macha" – undertook with his then ...

Juana Fe Juana Fe is a Chilean musical band that mixes popular Latin American rhythms such as salsa and cumbia with Jamaican ska. Alongside other New Chilean Cumbia bands such as La Mano Ajena, Tizana and Chico Trujillo, they form part of the new wave o ...

La Mano Ajena La Mano Ajena is a Chilean band founded in 2002 that mixes rhythms from Eastern Europe, Latin America, France and Russia, blending all these sounds in a pastiche that also unites the tendencies of each member of the band: rock, punk, Latin America ...

Banda Conmoción ''Banda Conmoción'' are a Chilean ensemble band who mix cumbia and gypsy music with genres such as ska and cha-cha-cha. They are part of the new Latin-American fusion movement and emerged in the early nineties along with groups like Chico ...

, Villa Cariño,

Combo Ginebra Combo Ginebra is a Chilean musical ensemble of the New Chilean Cumbia style. The band emerged in 2004 as a traditional gypsy music duo featuring Álvaro Pacheco and Juan Pablo Cabello. The duo soon began incorporating cumbia rhythms into their re ...

, La María Goyo (psychedelic cumbia),

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and Santa Feria.

References

External links

TerramagazineTVN report (video)
{{Music in Spanish Chilean cumbia Cumbia music genres