The 200-Year Rhythm That Crossed Every Border It Met
Cumbia began along Colombia's Magdalena River in the 1800s, fusing African percussion, indigenous flutes, and Spanish harmony into a courtship dance that colonial authorities tried to suppress. Today it's one of Latin America's most traveled genres, and Cumbia, La Musica Que Nos Gusta streams the Mexican tradition that made it a hemispheric phenomenon, from Rigo Tovar to the present day.