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48 albums · 1963–2024

Music of Ecuador, from Julio Jaramillo and the pasillo to tecnocumbia, the rock of Quito, Nicola Cruz and today

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Papá Roncón standing beside his marimba, with cununo drums behind him
A bronze bust of Julio Jaramillo in front of framed newspaper pages about his deathMariela Condo singing on stage in a pink shawl, a guitarist beside her
Guillermo Ayoví Erazo, Papá Roncón, beside his marimba in Esmeraldas, 2015. Photo: Ministerio de Cultura y Patrimonio del Ecuador, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. · The bust of Julio Jaramillo in the Museo de la Música Popular in Guayaquil, 2015. Photo: Edjoerv, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · Mariela Condo on stage in Cuenca, 2025. Photo: Martín Vasco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Ecuador's popular music has the pasillo at its heart, the slow song of Julio Jaramillo, Carlota Jaramillo, Olimpo Cárdenas and the Dúo Benítez-Valencia, and around it the sanjuanitos of Ñanda Mañachi from Peguche, the bomba of the Chota valley in Margarita Laso's voice, the marimba of Esmeraldas with Papá Roncón, the tecnocumbia of Jaime Enrique Aymara, Gerardo Morán and Delfín Quishpe, the rock of Quito from Sal y Mileto to Rocola Bacalao, Sudakaya and Cruks en Karnak, Juan Fernando Velasco's ballads and his pasillos, Mirella Cesa's pop, and Nicola Cruz, Mateo Kingman, Swing Original Monks, La Máquina Camaleón and Lolabúm today. The list has 48 records from 1963 to 2024, one or two by each of the names above and only a small part of what they made, the old singers in the reissues that reached streaming; the song of the Amazon, the bands of the fiestas, the 78s of the first pasillo singers that never reached streaming and the classical tradition, of which no Ecuadorian ensemble is on Deezer, would each need a list of their own. About 39 hours of music, 5 days of a few records each.

By genre

Rock 11%Latin 9%Folk & Country 8%Other 72%
  • Rock 11%
  • Latin 9%
  • Folk & Country 8%
  • Other 72%

The genres named most: ecuadorian, folk, pasillo, pop, tecnocumbia, rock.

The colours of the covers

A stripe for each cover, in the colour Tidal picks from it, sorted by hue; the greys at the end.

Where the music comes from

Music from 1 country: Ecuador 48. The deeper the colour, the more albums: one, two to four, five to nine, ten and more.

The 1960s

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The 2020s

More lists

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