MUSIC CHAMPETA

Champeta

Champeta is a genus of the popular music and dance originating from the Atlantic coastal regions of Colombia.Champeta originated between the people of African descent of the Colombian cities of Cartagena of Indias and Barranquilla, and was linked with the culture of Palenque de San Basilio district. displays influences of musical genres of  settlements colonial Euro-African and the continent of Africa. The "champeta" refers to a culture whose history is marked by slavery and abuse.

At the beginning of the 1970s the culture Champeta came to be best known in Colombia, due to the development of one set of dances complex configured with the rhythms of the sauce and the jíbaro and more later the reggae. This music is played at full volume through of large speakers known locally as "Picós" (from the English word "pick-up"). these first dances were called"therapy" for its relaxing nature, a distraction of the problems economic the country. Performers gender related.

The singer Carlos Vives adopted the gender Therapy-Champeta in the song Pa 'Maite and shows some of this influence in other places. The sauce singer Joe Arroyo with the target of put on, relief, what that is of origin indigenous African or Caribbean Cartagena and combines various African musical influences as champeta, and is described in many of his albums as "champetuo" for example, The Rebellion.

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