Cumbia
Cumbia is a dance music style from Colombia's Caribbean coast with a shuffling, two-beat rhythm that spread and took local forms across Latin America.
Traditional cumbia mixes African drums, Indigenous flutes called gaitas and Spanish-influenced song forms, with maracas and a scraped guacharaca keeping time. From the 1940s big bands and record labels modernized it, and it travelled to Mexico, Peru, Argentina and beyond, picking up accordions, electric guitars and synthesizers. Its relaxed mid-tempo gait makes it easy to tell from faster salsa or merengue.
Artists it is known for: Lucho Bermúdez, Andrés Landero, La Sonora Dinamita, Los Ángeles Azules.
- Family
- Latin
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- Caribbean coast of Colombia
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,400 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have cumbia among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Cumbia artists
Selena
Los Ángeles Azules
Chico Trujillo
La T y La M
Luck Ra
Leo Mattioli
Los del Fuego
Rodrigo
Callejero Fino
The cumbia 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.