Cumbia Radio

Cumbia Radio ***** Listen to the best radio stream available. We have gathered the best internet radio stations from the web. This radio app is loaded with numerous Cumbia stations playing the best Cumbia songs from all around the world. Listen to your favorite music now from everywhere on your android device.

Radio Player Features:
1) Stream Music In The Background
2) Stable Streaming
3) Social Networking
4) Song Info

RadioPlus radio apps are constantly updated! Enjoy Listening ;)

******************** ALSO AVAILABLE ON TABLETS ********************

Due to all the different android devices, it is very challenging providing support for every single device. If you have any technical difficulties or questions then please don't hesitate to contact the RadioPlus team before posting any negative feedback in the comments. Thanks for your continued support!

If you like the radio app, please leave us a review! Thanks in advance!

******************** THE ORIGIN & HISTORY OF CUMBIA MUSIC ********************

Cumbia is a popular music genre across Latin America that developed in Colombia's Caribbean coastal region and Panama from the cultural and musical mixture of Native Panamanians and Colombians and Panamanians, as well as African slaves and the Spanish during colonial times.

Cumbia started out as a courtship ritual dance performed by Africans. It later became blended with African and European instruments and musical characteristics, as well as Amerindian steps. Cumbia is very popular type of music in the Southern Cone and the Andean region, and is much more popular than salsa in several parts of the aforementioned regions. Interestingly, up until the middle part of the mid-20th century, Cumbia has been deemed as an unsuitable dance, performed mainly by the lower social ranks.

Traditionally, Cumbia music is played only with Cumbia drums. As years past, accordions were added, then replaced by versatile instruments like conga, timbales, guira, tamboras, and claves. Guitar, caja snare drum, bass guitar, clarinet, the mejoranera and the Rabel (Panama), modern flute have also been used.

The so called “Golden age of Cumbia” has been reached during the middle part of the 20th century, when Colombian artists like Lucho Bermudez and Pacho Galan refined Cumbia which became widely popular across Colombia and Latin America. The rich diversity of Latin America influenced the significant changes in Colombian Cumbia through the blending of regional musical styles. Today, Cumbia’s popularity has remained intact through the proliferation of digital Cumbia or “nu-cumbia” and Brazilian Cumbia.