Banda
Banda is a Mexican style played by large brass bands, with clarinets, trumpets, trombones, a tuba and drums backing a lead singer.
It grew in the state of Sinaloa from the mid-1800s, shaped by military bands and by European polkas and waltzes. A band of ten to twenty players performs rancheras, corridos, cumbias and romantic ballads, with the tuba and a bass drum called the tambora driving the beat. The all-brass and woodwind sound separates it from accordion-led norteño and string-led mariachi.
Artists it is known for: Banda El Recodo, Banda MS, La Arrolladora Banda El Limón, Jenni Rivera.
- Family
- Regional Mexican
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- Sinaloa, mid-19th century
- Also called
- banda sinaloense
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 3%
About 2,700 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have banda among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Banda artists
Fuerza Regida
Junior H
Peso Pluma
Natanael Cano
Grupo Frontera
Banda MS de Sergio Lizárraga
Grupo Marca Registrada
Luis R Conriquez
Christian Nodal
Los Tigres Del Norte
The banda artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.