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Inside Música Popular, Colombia’s Fast-Growing Craze
Musica popular has been growing as a genre in Colombia — and across the world — behind Yeison Jimenez, Pipe Bueno and other artists.
This summer, singer-songwriter Yeison Jimenez achieved his lifelong dream of selling out the coveted Movistar Arena in Bogotá, Colombia — not once, but three times, with more than 40,000 collective fans attending the shows. Sonically, the arrangements can mirror the instrumentation of mariachi and ranchera music, such as trumpets, violins and the guitarrón(six-string acoustic bass), blended with the accordion, commonly used in vallenato. As part of the new wave, Bueno and Jimenez — alongside artists including Paola Jara, Luis Alfonso, Jessi Uribe and Arelys Henao — have not only given the genre a modern twist but also propelled it to an international scale.
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