Introduction

First and foremost, you need to know that these are not just simple dance classes or some ordinary dancing events, this is a worldwide project.

The purpose, is to spread this amazing rhythm and gorgeous Cumbia Sonidera dance from Mexico and Colombian Cumbia, all over the globe.

This music & dance need to be known by absolutely everyone who is passionate into music & dance.

For those who don’t know...

• Cumbia is a Latin American musical genre born in Colombia somewhere around the 1800`s.

It is the first Latin musical genre to appear on the American continent, then other genres such as Salsa, Cha cha cha, Mambo, Rumba etc. followed.

• Since 1940 - 1950's, Cumbia has been taken over by the other Latin countries on the continent.

Ciudad de Mexico was first to find the love for the Colombian Cumbia, and then added some few extra sounds to it.

They named it Cumbia Sonidera.

Generality of Cumbia Sonidera

Cumbia sonidera rescues the way of doing Colombian cumbia with accordion and among its variants is that of using synthesizer effects to accentuate the genre of a DJ, so it results in a fusion between the cumbia of the 50's, 60's and 70's with the electronic sounds of the DJs of the mid-90's.

Cumbia Sonidera began to be internationally popular between the years of 1996 and 2000.

Components

The new genre of Cumbia Sonidera is unique, identifying it with an organic and Guacharaca melody like that of the old tropical Cumbia groups of the 70s, giving it a pattern and rhythm with which it evokes the old Colombian tamboras with classic instruments such as the conga, timbal (Mexican contribution to Cumbia, keyboard, harp (taken from the coastal Cumbia of southeastern states), electric guitar (derived from those used at the beginning of Mexican Cumbia), synthesizer (derived from the Cumbia-Rock of the early 70's), drum, bass, cornet, sometimes the tuba, saxophone (from the folklore of eastern, northern and southeastern Mexico), the güiro (a contribution from Mexico to Cumbia) and the accordion (from the folklore of norteño music from Mexico that was also used by Colombia). Cumbia Sonidera also stands out for being more instrumental and with little lyricism. However, even when it has lyrics, a widely used musical component is to highlight at all times the sound of the Guacharaca, which characterizes this subgenre of Cumbia.

Origin of the Sonidero genre in Cumbia music & popular places for Cumbia Sonidera in Mexico.

Although the term Cumbia Sonidera is a generic term, there is no authorship as such of who defined the term that is considered to be in popular domain to define this musical variant of Mexican Cumbia

The origins go back decades, when the Perea brothers, originally from the Peñón de los Baños neighborhood, on the outskirts of Mexico City's International Airport, formed a "Mobile Disco" or sound each, "Fascinación" and "Arcoiris", with which they presented LPs of various tropical rhythms from recordings made in the Caribbean and South America mainly.

Catalog of music that was not commercialized in Mexico with which they distinguished themselves among others that were dedicated to the field, and that would be the trigger for the appearance of other sonideros in the same place.

Likewise, in San Juan de Aragón the "Sonido Rolas" by Roberto Herrera Hernández emerged, in Nezahualcóyotl emerged Sonido Azteca by Héctor Melchor and in the Barrio de Tepito "Sonido La Changa" by Ramón Rojo.

The Peñón de los Baños is a populous neighborhood of the capital of Mexico and is distinguished preponderantly by listening to all kinds of tropical music, so much so that it was alluded to with the phrase in the voice of the late Colombian Lucho Argaín, "in Tepito and in the Peñón de los Baños, with the Cucu of the Sonora Dinamita" in a classic theme, "El cucu" a Cumbia combined with Swing in some parts, indicating the importance along with Tepito of being the mecca of the exhibitions of recordings brought from the south of the continent, is known among the sonideros as the "Colombia Chiquita", sometimes this term is also used in the hills, outskirts of Monterrey due to the popularity of vallenato and cumbia of that northern city. Colombian Music in Mexico

Cities to listen & dance Cumbia Sonidera in Mexico

Mexico city, Leon Guanajuato, San Luis Potosi, Monterrey, Coahuila, Acapulco, Hidalgo, Queretaro, Chiapas, Tabasco, Morelos, Yucatan, State of Mexico, Tlaxcala, Quintana Roo, Veracruz, Aguascalientes, Oaxaca, Puebla, Campeche, Michoacán & Tampico.

Cumbia is considered to be the soul of Latin American music and Queen of the rhythms.

The Cumbia we have here in Bristol that we’ll learn more about is Cumbia Sonidera, from North Mexico.

The dance styles that we are gonna learn... are from the cities: Leon Guanajuato, San Luis Potosi, Monterrey & Monclova.

There's 3 Cumbia Sonidera dance styles we have in the project:

Partner dance -> Northern Mexico Sonideros steps & Street dance style -> Cholos & Aztec dance.

Now is the time for England and all of Europe to see and feel the energy and vibration of Colombian and Mexican Cumbia- the music that the world needs to hear and learn more about.

Together, we can bring and put the dance style of Cumbia Sonidera out there in the world, internationalising it like Salsa, Bachata and Cha Cha Cha are.

This project, "Rhythm and Flavor", was created in 2021 by Virgil Y Cumbias,

the only dance teacher in the UK who has this passion for Cumbia Sonidera, and he wants YOU in the circle of RUEDA DE CUMBIA SONIDERA.

We are most fortunate to be here in Bristol and share with you the true power of Cumbia.

These dance classes will prepare you for all the Cumbia events that will take place in Bristol or anywhere else in the world.

Right now... all you have to do is, if you like the sound of Cumbia, come and experience with us this amazing rhythm of Colombian Cumbia and Mexican Cumbia

This is very new and very fresh for the UK, right from the streets where Cumbia Sonidera is listened and danced the most.

We are 100% sure that you will love this phenomenal rhythm of Colombia and Mexico.

Virgil Y Cumbias, the Ambassador of the dancers of Cumbia Sonidera, greets Bristol - England and the whole of Europe, inviting you to dance one of the best rhythms of Cumbia.

Thank you everyone for supporting Cumbia in Bristol - England.