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Agua Marina
Agua Marina is a Peruvian cumbia orchestra formed in 1976 in Sechura, Piura, by the Quiroga Querevalú brothers and known as "La Universidad de la Cumbia".
Alejandro Durán
Alejandro Durán, known as Alejo Durán, was a Colombian vallenato accordionist, singer, and composer, crowned the first Rey Vallenato at the 1968 festival in Valledupar.
Alfredo Gutiérrez (Colombian musician)
Alfredo Gutiérrez, known as El Rebelde del Acordeón, is a Colombian accordionist, singer, and composer born in 1943 who co-founded Los Corraleros de Majagual and won the Rey Vallenato crown three times.
Esther Forero
Esther Forero, known as Esthercita Forero, was a Colombian singer and composer from Barranquilla who wrote more than 500 songs, including the Carnival anthem "La Guacherna".
Fonseca
Fonseca, stage name of Juan Fernando Fonseca, is a Colombian singer-songwriter born in Bogotá in 1979 who fuses pop with vallenato and cumbia, and has won nine Latin Grammys.
Lucho Bermúdez
Lucho Bermúdez (1912–1994) was a Colombian clarinetist, composer, and bandleader from Carmen de Bolívar who turned Colombia's coastal porro and cumbia into orchestral big-band music, with classics like "Danza Negra" and "Colombia Tierra Querida".
Pintura Roja
Pintura Roja is a Peruvian chicha and cumbia group founded in Lima in the early 1980s by guitarist and composer Alejandro Zárate, known for "El teléfono".
Rafael Escalona
Rafael Escalona (1927–2009) was a Colombian composer of vallenato who wrote classics like 'La Casa en el Aire' and co-founded the Festival de la Leyenda Vallenata.
Rodolfo Aicardi
Rodolfo Aicardi (Marco Tulio Aicardi Rivera, 1946–2007), Colombian tropical singer of Magangué, voice of Los Hispanos and La Típica RA7; famous for 'Cariñito' and 'La Colegiala', called the king of Colombian December festivities.
Toño Fuentes
Toño Fuentes, born Antonio José Fuentes López, was a Colombian musician and entrepreneur who founded Discos Fuentes in Cartagena in 1934, the first record label in Colombia.
Totó la Momposina
Totó la Momposina, born Sonia Bazanta Vides in 1940, was a Colombian singer of traditional cumbia and bullerengue whose 1993 album La Candela Viva made her an international figure.
Yerba Brava
Yerba Brava is an Argentine cumbia villera group formed in 1998 in San Fernando, Buenos Aires Province, best known for 'La cumbia de los trapos' and its 2000 debut album Cumbia Villera.