La Sonora Dinamita

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Group Members: Margarita Canela, Margarita la diosa de la cumbia

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La Sonora Dinamita is a Colombian cumbia group. As one of the first cumbia groups to reach international success, it is credited with helping to popularize the genre throughout Latin America, and the world.

The original orchestra was formed in 1960 in Cartagena de Indias under the direction of bandleader Lucho Argaín. It disbanded in 1963, but was re-formed in 1975 under the direction of Julio Ernesto Estrada "Fruko" Rincón, the artistic director of the Discos Fuentes record label. In 1981, " While the group's lineup has changed, it has always featured a strong female vocalist to accompany its ten-piece brass instrumentation: Mélida Yará, Vilma Díaz, Margarita Vargas, Susana Velasques a Salvadoran vocalist., etc...

The group continues to perform worldwide under the umbrella of Apodaca Music Group, one of the largest management and booking companies for Latin talent.

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Zizek and Digital Cumbia

By Richard Gehr, eMusic Contributor

Every Thursday night at the Voodoo Motel in Buenos Aires's styling Palermo neighborhood, resident DJs Villa Diamante, Nim and El G throw a weekly party known as Zizek. Named after the insanely brilliant, or perhaps just brilliantly insane, Slovenian philosopher-psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek (the connection has something to do with his marriage to an Argentine model), their weekly fiesta focuses on the cutting edge of digital cumbia along with other tropical and urban delights. Launched in… more »