Sentence examples for cumbia from inspiring English sources

He takes elements of reggae, soul, highlife, cumbia and Ethiopian jazz and gives them enough of an electronic edge to provide the necessary pulse for a club.

The black and white hats, woven from dried cane leaves, and whose name can be loosely translated as "turned hat", are worn proudly on the Caribbean coast by cowhands, professors, merchants, cumbia dancers, politicians and visiting dignitaries.

Through his songs which remained firmly rooted in cumbia, tango, and the regional music of his native country—as well as through his ongoing philanthropic work, he condemned the world's violence while projecting hope for a better future.

On the Caribbean coast the bullerengue, lumbalu, and the circular cumbia mingle indigenous and African features.

Musical tastes range from the traditional pasillos and cumbia to 1970s disco hits and hip-hop music; all styles may be played in a single evening.

The coastal celebrations feature widespread couple dances of mixed Indian-Spanish origin, and the cumbia includes African qualities.

In addition to their own musical creations, many Mexicans enjoy Latin imports such as cumbia and danzón and various styles of rock and pop music.

His musical projects range from the dulcet sounds of Las Rubias del Norte to the electrified cumbia of Chicha Libre.

Though she had tutored them in the Catholic catechism and in dance steps for cumbia and guapango music, she had withheld from them her domestic competence, for reasons that she didn't fully understand.

It's used, uselessly, to encompass everything from Colombian cumbia to Nigerian highlife to the throat singing of Huun-Huur-Tu, a band from the Republic of Tuva that's been making spectacularly strange music for almost two decades.

Two Sundays ago, the artist and urban planner Neil Freeman stood in front of a vacant lot in Bushwick, Brooklyn, beneath the elevated J train and across the street from an apartment blasting Colombian cumbia music.