Latin music
Latin American music, or the music of Latin America, is sometimes called Latin music. It includes the music of many countries and comes in many varieties, from the down-home conjunto music of Northern Mexico to the sophisticated habanera of Cuba, from the symphonies of Heitor Villa-Lobos to the simple and moving Andean flute.
Music has played an important part in Latin America's turbulent recent history, for example the nueva cancion movement.
Not to be forgotten also is the fact that Latin America produced one of the greatest boy bands in history, Menudo, out of which Martin came from, and which spawned mass hysteria worldwide and a string of other groups (Such as Mexico's Magneto, Puerto Rico's Los Chicos and Venezuela's Los Chamos and Ufff!! that tried to imitate Menudo's success. Chayanne, now an international superstar, was a member of Los Chicos.
Menudo was preceded by another Edgardo Diaz creation, Spain's La Pandilla.
Although Spain isn't a part of Latin America, Spanish music and Latin American music strongly cross-fertilized each other, but Latin music also absorbed influences from English and American music, and. particularly, African music.
For an analysis of Latin music by country see:
Referenced By
1950s in music | Alpay | Aurora | Central American music | Drum'n'Bass | Drum and Bass | Extremaduran music | Hispanic music in the United States | JPop | Japanese Music | Koji Kondo | Latin American music in the United States | Latin music in the United States | Latino music in the United States | List of cultural and regional genres of music | List of genres of music (A-M) | List of regional and cultural genres of music | List of regional genres of music | Makossa | Music in Puerto Rico | Music of Central America | Music of Extremadura | Music of Japan | Music of Puerto Rico | Music of the Canary Islands | Perez Prado | Puerto Rico/Music | Pérez Prado | Ruben Blades | Rubén Blades | Saint Louis Blues | Senor Coconut | Son montuno | St. Louis Blues | St Louis Blues | Tears For Fears | Thump Records | Timeline of trends in music (1950-1959) | Uwe Schmidt | Xavier Cugat
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