There are many types of Latino music, depending from what region of Latin America you are from. White and Black Cubans in the Caribbean helped influence salsa, and Puerto Rican music is merengue. Mexicans of Indian and Spanish heritage, mixed rhythms that have a strange circus like sound, but it is called banda and cumbia . Dominicans do music like Bachata, which also has Spanish and black influence. A new trend in music is reggaeton, which is like rap and reggae mixed. This has become extremely popular. They also have other genre of music like we do, but in Spanish. Such varying types of music consists of cultural and racial influences.

Selena

Shakira

Sin Bandera

RBD

Reik

Paulina Rubio

Mana

Belinda

Juanes

Jeremias

Kudai

Daddy Yankee

Ricky Martin

Tito El Bambino

Gloria Estefan

Enrique Iglesias

Rosana

Julieta Venegas

Roberto Carlos

Amanda Miguel

Vikki Carr

Don Omar

Thalia

Soraya

Olga Tanon

La India

Alicia Villarreal

Natalia Jimenez

Juan Carlos Jiménez (La Mona Jiménez)

I learned two different versions of it, one is not so nice, the other is better. Here they are:

La cucaracha, la cucaracha,

Ya no puede caminar.

Porque no tiene, porque le falta,

La marijuana que fumar.

And the nicer one:

La cucaracha, la cucaracha,

Ya no puede caminar,

Porque no tiene, porque le faltan

Las dos patitas de atrás.

The first one says he can't walk because he has no marijuana (as if that makes any sense!) and the second one says he can't walk because he doesn't have two back feet. LOL

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There are hundreds of verses to this traditional Mexican Folk song. The use of Marijuana in the quoted stanza is referring to its pain-killing and... what's the word? "forgetting" properties. In other words, the soldier is weary and footsore, but smoking marijuana makes his (or in some versions, her) feet stop hurting and makes them forget their troubles--they can keep right on marching (or dancing or whatever).

The second quote is a kid's version, where "La Cucaracha" is just a cockroach, no metaphor involved.

Tejano Music was coined (first said or established) in the early 1980's. It was a product of the combination of La Onda Chicana and Conjunto Music. To understand the roots of Tejano Music you must understand that at one time it was two distinctive music groups. La Onda Chicana's past goes back to Chicano music and even further before all the way back to Beto Villas Orquestra and even further back. On the Conjunto end it can be traced back as far as Conjunto Bernal and further. Currently the origins of Tejano Music are still argued and do not have a set form of definitions. There are a few pioneers of Tejano music still alive and around for information. You might want to try locating Marcelo Tafoya he was the first lifetime achievement award winner at the Tejano Music Awards (TTMA) and was the first DJ to play Tejano Music on the air fulltime. Tejano became big in the 90's when the "Queen Of Tejano" music Selena, burst onto the scene. After her death on March 31st 1995 the world was shock but as her music carried on by making her first English album that was released pothumously, she became one of the fastest selling females in the world, the first hispanic singer to go number 1 on the Billboard Pop Chart, one of the most succesfull latin artists in the world, and has appeared in the Guinness Book Of World Records 1999 as "Most Dominating Artist".

IMPROVE:

Narciso Martinez (R.I.P.) is the Father of Conjunto Music starting back in the 1930's. In our Tejano Music Culture we have Conjunto, Chicano, Tejano, Tex-Mex and Tejano Orchestra Classic Music. Tejano Music & Entertainment is Unique, there is no comparison. That why we called it, Our Unique Tejano Music & Entertainment. In our Tejano Culture we have Tejano Bands and Tejano Music Bands. Tejano Music Bands plays only Tejano Music. Nowadays, Tejano Music Bands might play Tejano and Country Music. while Tejano Bands might play, Conjunto, Chicano, Tex-Mex or Norteno Music. Norteno Bands are from Northern Mexico while Tejano Bands are from Texas. Please, try not to confuse Norteno or Banda Bands with Tejano Bands or versus. True Tejano Music Lovers knows the differences between the music mentioned above as well as the differences between these bands. Always remember, Tejano Music is Unique, there is no comparison.!

Siempre Tejano De Corazon,

Israel aka P.B.T. (10/09/09)

Joao Gilberto

the impaact she had was givingback to her community and not only them she provides an education from less fortunate that need an education

What parameters are you putting on the term "popular"?

Sales, airplay, ability to influence wider society?

When looking at regional sales of music it would be the Hip-Hop, Rap, Rock, and Country sales in America.

Latin countries are beginning to catch up with America in tastes of music. Latin style music is also changing some other already popular genres.

In European countries the majority would be Rock, Rap, Electronic, Pop, and possibly Hip-Hop.

They are relatively close to America.

The music sales can usually reflect on the amount of users listening, though there are variables so it may not reflect completely accurately.

Ten.

Lilia Reyes, Jovita Fuentes, Salvacion Oppus Yniguez, Sylvia La Torre, Evelyn Mandac, Fides Cuyugan, Rachelle Gerodias

Enrique Iglesias!

para todos magazine has already crowned him that and he has the maximum amount of number 1s on the latin charts and he is like a god so obviously its him.

It is a speaking practice of Ielts. I am also waiting for the answers

Ellie Amelia And Olivia infulenced Samba music when they travelled to Brazil for 30 Years.

when tango is being played by a band or dj

One of two Latin phrases may be chosen as equivalent to the English phrase 'from the beginning'. One option is the phrase ab initio, which is in the ablative case. The nominative, or subject, form of the word in the singular is 'initium', which means 'an entering upon' and, therefore, a beginning. Another option is ab ovo, which literally means 'from the egg'.

She has 7 albums but the first 2 were released in the early 90s and she doesn't like to talk about them as she was only 13 when Magia came out and 15 when Peligro came out. Her new album is due September 25th according to many sources. The first single from that album is called She-Wolf and will be out this month :).

A list of Shakira's albums;

Magia (Magic)

Peligro (Danger)

Pies Descalzos (Bare Feet)

Donde Estan Los Ladrones? (Where Are The Thieves?)

Laundry Service

Fijacion Oral Vol. 1 (Oral Fixation Volume 1)

Oral Fixation Vol. 2

Rihanna sings it. And I love it.

It is very very good. One of her best songs so far!!

WORDS BY ME!

Really good, interesting, fabulous, don't think it's our Rihanna's style.

WORDS BY MY SISTER

What do you guys think? Feel free to improve my answer. xx

== == The main contenders for the creation of the Bossanova are Antonio Carlos Jobim and Jaoa Gilberto (the first Bossanova record is possibly their soudtrack for the movie 'Black Orpheus'). Other important contributors are Carlos Lyra, Roberto Meneschal, Vinicius De Moraes and Roberto Boscol. Some say that the Bossanova was born in the Copacabana apartment of singer, Nara Leao, where many of these musicians would gather to play. Bossanova was popularised outside of Brazil with the release of the Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto album 'Getz/gilberto' which featured the wildly popular 'Girl from Ipanema' sung by Joao's wife Astrid.

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