Tecnocumbia

Tecnocumbia is a variant of the Mexican cumbia started earlier the 80's. The style of technocumbia was a fusion between electronics sounds generated by electrical musical instruments, mainly the electrical drums, and added synthesisers and samplers to the mexican cumbia music. One of the first musical groups with electrical 80's sounds was Super Show de los Vazkez from Veracruz, México, formed in 1981, also, another important exponents were Los Temerarios, Los Bukis, Fito Olivares, and others. This groups created several hits with electrical sounds, their fame continues to the end of the 80's [ [http://www.cuarteto-continetal.mx.kz Mexican Cumbia's section, Website of Cuarteto Continental] ] .

Earlier the 90's, Selena the "Tex-mex queen", had great musical hits in U.S.A. and Mexico, her main hits of the technocumbia style was "Como la flor" (Like a flower), "Carcacha" (the old car)", and, for first time, this genre was called like "Technocumbia" by her, with the musical hit of same name, "Technocumbia".

Later, this genre was introduced in southamerica that grew out of Andean chicha (peruvian cumbia), its own version of the mexican cumbia. The musical style started mainly in Peru and Bolivia in the middle of the 90's, using the Peruvian chicha as a base, fused with the mexican sounds. The Tecnocumbia has gone through many changes in different regions such as Huancayo, Lima in Peru, Bolivia. Rossy War was the most important singer of peruvian tecnocumbia, she recorded several hits for Peru and Mexico, but her fame was bigger in the U.S.A. latin comunnity. Finally in the north of Argentina the most recent exponents are the group Kasualidad and Lagrimas.

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