The press have called this band "the box-office record breakers" due to its vast popularity among people in Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador and other countries. Los Ronisch, the Cumbia ambassadors of Bolivia, are one of the most popular Cumbia bands in South America. The men move in zig-zag motions around the women, while the women make shuffling movements while holding candles in bundles wrapped into colored foulards. Typically, the couples dance in a circle around musicians producing the Cumbia music. Cumbia is traditionally danced at night, in a pair as it is a partnered dance.Cumbia dance started as a courtship dance around the 17th and 18th centuries when it was invented by African slaves who. The name Cumbia also originated from Africa because cumbia is an African word that means dance. A graceful dance later evolved from this music and came to be known as Cumbia dance which is the national dance of Colombia. Cumbia was a synthesis of the traditions of three separate cultures: former slaves of African. The term Cumbia refers to both a style of Colombian folk-dance music, which originated on the country's northern Atlantic coast, and its dominant rhythm, which was assimilated into a great deal of Latin-American music in the Northern Hemisphere. The name “cumbia,” however, comes from the word. Although its history goes back many centuries on the Colombia’s Caribbean coast, some scholars would argue that the term “cumbia” wasn’t actually used to describe any form of music or dance until the 1800s. It’s hard to tell exactly when cumbia developed as a musical genre and dance.
As per famed musicologist Franco Fabri, a genre can most easily be defined as: "A. Cumbia music is an equally fascinating yet relatively unexplored Latin-American folkloric tradition in Colombia.
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