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Latin American music is known for capturing listeners' hearts and souls and getting them on the dance floor. It's no wonder that this form of music has influenced modern pop, jazz, and hip-hop music styles, thanks to its intricate rhythms and beats, fascinating and colorful instruments, and rich and bold history. It refers to the musical traditions of Mexico, Central America, and the Spanish and Portuguese-colonized parts of South America and the Caribbean. These customs represent the region's unique blend of Native American, African, and European influences, which have altered over time.

Latin American culture is heavily influenced by music and dance. Music and dance are always present during social occasions such as weddings, birthdays, births, baptisms, holidays, and festivals.

They perform music with a spiritual sense and as a message to their Gods. Latin music is intimately focused on rhythms. Being almost the fundamental engine when it comes to creating and producing it. The variety of musical styles considered to be of Latin origins is very wide.  In order to define some musical styles, it is necessary to set ourselves on the harmonic elements as well. Such as acoustic guitars for styles like Bachata, and Lambada. As well as trumpets, flutes, saxophones, pianos, and clarinets for styles like Salsa and Cumbia.

Pre-Columbian societies were known for their use of wind instruments. All varieties of flutes were manufactured all throughout the American continent, and thankfully, this original expression has survived to this day in traditional Latin music, such as Andean music from South America.

The five common types of Latin American music: cumbia, banda, trova, huayño, and samba. Despite the fact that each genre originated in a specific location, they have all subsequently become global.

Cumbia 

Cumbia music, which originated in Colombia, is noted for its folk style and is now recognized for its blend of African and Indigenous rhythms and instruments, such as the 'gaita,' a flute-like instrument, the 'guacharacas,' a percussion instrument, and other European influences.

Banda

Banda is, without a doubt, Mexico's most popular music. Banda is a band featuring a horn section and one or two drummers, but no piano, guitar, or bass guitar.

Samba

Brazil is its own world, and it has its own world of music. Samba rhythms mixed with jazz structures gave rise to bossa nova, which has since injected samba with a smoother, jazzier feel.  Bossa nova is a popular music style influenced by a mixture of the vibrant samba and cool jazz flavours.

Trova

The tiny island of Cuba pulses with music. Trova has spread over Latin America, even returning to its birthplace of Spain. Trova is an exception to the rule of identifying a genre by listening to the drums and bass. No, trova usually consists of just a singer and a guitar.

Huayño

The Andes, especially in Peru and Bolivia, produce countless genres and subgenres of indigenous-influenced music 토토 that often features pan flutes of many sizes. Though popular bands like Proyeccion have modernized it, like many kinds of folk music, huayaño is originally dance music with poetic lyrics.

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