“The seeds of digital cumbia go back to the 1960s, to the family apartment of a Dutch electronics executive who had come to South America for work. His eight-year-old son, Dick Verdult – who would later be known as Dick El Demasiado, the godfather of experimental cumbia in Argentina – used to listen to the thump of the music through the wall as the family’s maid played it on her radio. “Cumbia was the music that made our housemaid happy,” he recalls. “It was the music of the maids.’”
Celulitis Popular, nu ook buitengewoon gewild bij de dames en heren van de BBC.
Bbc.com/culture/story/20130823-updating-the-buenos-aires-beat
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