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Tropical music (Spanish: música tropical) is a term in the Latin music industry that refers to music genres deriving from or influenced by the Spanish-speaking areas of the Caribbean. It includes the islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and the Caribbean coastal regions of Colombia, Mexico, Central America and Venezuela.
Here is a list of songs with a tropical sound or spirit. 1949 Perez Prado - Mambo No. 5. 1955 Perez Prado - Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White. 1956 Harry Belafonte - Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) 1958 Perez Prado - Patricia. 1963 The Kingsmen - Louie, Louie. 1966 The Sandpipers - Guantanemera.
In the 1930s tropical music became popular in the United States. Some of the emerging styles from the Caribbean included mambo, cha cha cha and cumbia. Xavier Cugat, for example, became an established Latin artist of the Great Depression years with hits such as "Brazil," "The Lady In Red" and "Perfidia." In the late twentieth century the term ...
Sep 3, 2020 · Tropicália or “Tropicalism” was a rich multicultural revolution that erupted over Brazil through music. Photo via Tumblr. Tropicália hasn’t made it to many museums, but it was a revolution so strong that Brazilian music—and politics—would never be the same after. You may never have heard that name before, but you might have come ...
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Jul 3, 2013 · Unlike the slick bossa nova of João Gilberto that Veloso had grown up with in the '50s (which for him symbolised the epitome of the country’s musical sophistication), by the 1960s Brazilian music was largely MPB (musica popular brasileira), a catch-all term that encompassed everything from polished bossa singers like Elis Regina and Wilson Simonal to a young set of protest singers like ...
Tumba is a style of Curaçao music, strongly African in origin, despite the name's origin in a 17th-century Spanish dance. Traditional tumba is characterized by scandalous, gossiping and accusatory lyrics, but modern tumba often eschews such topics. It is well known abroad, and dates to the early 19th century.
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Aug 12, 2019 · Tropicalia, a movement that has had a lasting influence on Brazilian society. This forced exile proved that the military could stop people, but not ideas. The tropicalists, through their audacity and their ingenuity, triggered a lasting movement, and profoundly changed attitudes in Brazil. The banished individuals were allowed to return to the ...
