"In the middle of the mountains of Monterrey, there is a Colombia chiquita, a Colombia regia, or royal. Monterrey is a city of migrants who came from the countryside to work in this industrial city. Perhaps it is the longing for a past life that connected the migrant neighborhoods of Monterrey to the songs about rural life along the Colombian coast. This is the land of the "sonideros," DJs who collect cumbia and tropical music records and appeared on the scene in the 1960s."
"Gabriel Duenez is one of the best known "sonideros." His daughter says that at a party, due to the overheating of his equipment, the tempo of a cumbia playing became much slower than normal. Thus, by accident, the cumbia rebajada was born alongside its slow dances, like the gavilan, or hawk, in which people dance hunched down low with their arms spread wide."
Monterrey contains a Colombia chiquita and a Colombia regia embraced by migrants who brought longing for rural coastal life. Sonideros, DJs who collected cumbia and tropical records since the 1960s, still bring equipment to clubs and street parties. Gabriel Duenez is a prominent sonidero whose overheated equipment accidentally slowed a cumbia, creating cumbia rebajada and slow dances like the gavilan. Kolombia emerged as an urban subculture whose cholombiano members adopt Los Angeles cholo fashion. Cumbia became associated with gang culture in low-income colonias, centered in colonia Independencia, where youths tagged city walls with cumbia verses. Sellers like Maikle Gutierrez sell Colombian records at Puente del Papa.
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