Banda Music
Banda is a brass-based form of traditional music. Bandas play a wide variety of songs, including rancheras, corridos, cumbias, baladas, and boleros. Bandas are most widely known for their rancheras, but they also play modern Mexican pop, rock, and cumbias. Most Banda music is very clearly a dialect of polka and will seem familiar and appealing to fans of polka or traditional German and Polish music.
La Banda el Recodo, La Arrolladora Banda El Limón, Banda MS, Cuisillos, Banda Jerez, and Banda Los Recoditos are some of the most famous banda groups. Banda is primarily a male-dominated genre; however, there are a few female soloist banda-singers such as Jenni Rivera and Graciela Beltrán.
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