Ecuador: The Andean reinvention of cumbia
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toggle caption Karla Gachet
This is part of a special series, Cumbia Across Latin America, a visual report across six countries developed over several years, covering the people, places and cultures that keep this music genre alive.
"When I remember you
I get very sad,
and this cumbia says,
how much I love you."
The first cumbia recorded in Ecuador at the end of the 1960s had only one verse. It was called "Cumbia Triste" and was written by Polibio Mayorga.
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