Selling shoes, selling food, selling jacketsĬurrent exposure of all social classes of Peru to chicha as well as a renovation in lyrical content, to include expressions of animation have led to its revival. Watch out or the police will take your bundle off you! My flag is of the colours and the stamp of the rainbow Los Shapis' standard "El Ambulante" (The Street Seller) opens with a reference to the rainbow colours of the Inca flag and the colour of the ponchos the people use to keep warm and transport their wares: Many songs relate to the great majority of people who have to make a living selling their labour and goods in the unofficial "informal economy", ever threatened by the police. While most lyrics are about love in all its aspects, nearly all songs reveal an aspect of the harshness of the Amerindian experience - displacement, hardship, loneliness and exploitation.
Its decline during the late 1990s was followed by a revival that began in 2007, mainly thanks to the rising popularity of Tongo. Efforts by Argentina-based Grupo Néctar and others gave it regional recognition. The strong influence of Mexican tecnocumbia became evident on the evolution of Peruvian cumbia in the 1990s. Another famous band in the 1980s were Los Shapis, a provincial group established by their 1981 hit "El Aguajal" (The Swamp), a version of a traditional huayno. The Pharaoh of Cumbia, Chacalon, became one of the most popular chicha artists through his hit "Soy provinciano" (I am from the province) and vibrant concerts. ĭuring the 1980s the Amerindian immigrants to coastal cities that nurtured the subgenre became working and middle class individuals and a market for chicha commercial radio. Other bands, such as Los Mirlos, Los Ecos, and Los Diablos Rojos were highly influenced by this style. The band Los Destellos, formed in Lima in 1966, brought electric guitars to chicha and consolidated its characteristic features by integrating in it elements of Peruvian Andean folklore, Peruvian creole waltz, Cuban music and rock music. The first chicha hit, and the song from which the movement has taken its name, was "La Chichera" (The Chicha Seller) by Los Demonios del Mantaro (The Devils of Mantaro), who hailed from the central highlands of Junin. By the mid-1980s it had become the most widespread urban music in Peru.
It became the music of choice of the mostly indigenous new migrant population. Chicha, which is named after a corn-based liquor favored by the Incas, quickly spread to Lima. Chicha absorbed elements of the music of the Amazonian regions of Peru and the use of the Farfisa electric organ through Amazonian bands like Juaneco y Su Combo. Loosely inspired by Colombian cumbia, it incorporated the distinctive pentatonic scales of Andean melodies, Cuban percussion, and the psychedelic sounds of surf guitars, wah-wah pedals and moog synthesizers.
Chicha songs contain electric guitar solos, following the rock music tradition.Ĭhicha started out in the 1960s in the oil-boom cities of the Peruvian Amazon. The rhythmic electric guitar in chicha is played with upstrokes, following patterns derived from Peruvian coastal creole waltz. It is played with keyboards or synthesizers and up to three electric guitars that can play simultaneous melodies, an element derived from the harp and guitar lines of Andean huayno. Unlike other styles of cumbia, the chicha subgenre's harmonics are based on the pentatonic scale typical of Andean music. The term chicha is more frequently used for the pre-1990s variations of the subgenre. Peruvian cumbia is a subgenre of chicha (Andean tropical music) that became popular in the coastal cities of Peru, mainly in Lima in the 1960s through the fusion of local versions of the original Colombian genre, traditional highland huayno, and rock music, particularly surf rock and psychedelic rock. Cumbia, surf rock, Andean music, psychedelic rock, vals criolloĮlectric guitar, electronic organ, percussion, güiro, maraca, keyboards, electric bass, timbales, synthesizer
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