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Antena 2000 launched in 1985 as Radio 2000 in L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, earning its permanent name and frequency in 2000 before building a rotation of Spanish and Latin pop hits from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s.
La Jefa Radio broadcasts banda, grupero, and romantic music from San Francisco Menéndez, Ahuachapán, a corner of El Salvador better known for coffee, volcanic ausoles, and the El Imposible rainforest.
Vibra Radio streams regional Mexican music, banda sinaloense and norteño, from Los Mochis, Sinaloa, the state that gave banda music its name and continues to define the genre.
La Más Perrona is the community radio of Tarandacuao, Guanajuato, a station that began as a pirate signal and won a real licence, now broadcasting on 1670 AM under a social concession. Run by and for its town, it plays the banda, norteña and ranchera of the Mexican heartland.
Candela 94.1 FM (XHRASA-FM) is San Luis Potosí's grupera powerhouse, part of the Cadena RASA network, with roots going back to a 1964 concession. After surviving bankruptcy in the 1990s and a full format reinvention, it now streams cumbia, norteña, banda, and salsa from Mexico's high plateau.
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.
