CUMBIA IN MY LAND: Between mountains, the Andean cumbia conquers Ecuador - National Geographic en Español

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CUMBIA IN MY LAND: Between mountains, the Andean cumbia conquers Ecuador - National Geographic en Español

The mountains of the Andes hide, apart from their natural beauty, a musical treasure that Ecuador conquers. This is the Andean cumbia. When I remember you, I get very sad, and this cumbia says, what I love you. The first cumbia recorded in Ecuador in the late 1960s, had only one stanza. It is called Cumbia Triste and it was written by Polibio Mayorga. The musician, who composed hundreds of cumbias, tropicalized the national music of the sierra t…