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Styles and sub-scenes: Latin pop, balada, and rock en espanol (including Spain)

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Avanzada regia

Avanzada regia is the rock and urban music scene that emerged in Monterrey, Mexico, in the mid-1990s, covering bands such as Control Machete, Plastilina Mosh, Jumbo, and El Gran Silencio.

Balada pop

Balada pop is the Spanish-language romantic pop ballad within Latin pop, whose 1990s golden age was led by Luis Miguel, whose Romance (1991) sold about 8 million copies.

Cumbia pop

Cumbia pop, also known as cumbia cheta, is a pop style built on the cumbia rhythm that arose in the Río de la Plata region around 2010 and peaked in 2015.

Flamenco nuevo

Flamenco nuevo is a Spanish movement of the late 1970s through the 1990s that fused flamenco with jazz, rock, pop, blues, and salsa, anchored by Camarón de la Isla's 1979 album La leyenda del tiempo.

Nueva canción

Nueva canción, Spanish for "new song," is a politically engaged, folk-rooted Latin American song movement that arose in the Southern Cone in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Rock argentino

Rock argentino, known locally as rock nacional, is Argentina's Spanish-language rock scene, running from the mid-1960s to the present and peaking in popularity in the 1980s.

Rock colombiano

Rock colombiano is the rock music made in Colombia, a scene that broke into the national mainstream in the 1990s with Aterciopelados and 1280 Almas.

Rock latino

Rock latino, or Latin rock, is a Latin American rock movement of the late 1980s and 1990s fusing rock with cumbia, salsa, and other rhythms.

Rock mexicano

Rock mexicano is the rock music scene of Mexico, from 1950s Spanish-language rock and roll through the 1971 Avándaro festival to acts like Maná and Caifanes.

Rock urbano

Rock urbano is a Spanish rock scene of working-class bar circuits playing riff-based hard rock with street castellano lyrics, from Leño and Rosendo to Extremoduro.