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25 albums · 1970–2022

Music of Honduras, from the paranda and the punta to Guillermo Anderson, Aurelio Martínez and today

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Garifuna drummers, maraca players and a dancer in a wanáragua costume on a Honduran beach
Guillermo Anderson singing with his guitar on stage with his bandThe Orquesta Filarmónica de Honduras on the stage of the Teatro Nacional Manuel Bonilla, seen from the stalls
Drummers and a wanáragua dancer at a punta on a beach of Honduras's north coast. Photo: Alvaro Dia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · Guillermo Anderson in concert with his band in 2009. Photo: Pattynes, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · The Orquesta Filarmónica de Honduras at the Teatro Nacional Manuel Bonilla in Tegucigalpa in 2011. Photo: Grammatéus, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Honduras's popular music has the Garifuna traditions of the north coast, the paranda and the punta, in the drums and voices of Lita Ariran, in Paula Castillo and in Aurelio Martínez's Garifuna Soul and Laru Beya, the punta bands of the coast and San Pedro Sula in Banda Blanca, Kazzabe and Los Gatos Bravos, the marimba of San Pedro Sula in the Marimba Usula, Guillermo Anderson's songs of La Ceiba and Moisés Canelo's nostalgias, the sixties beat of Los Robbins, the rock of Diablos Negros and Café Guancasco from Tegucigalpa, Polache's pop, and the reggaeton of Aziatic in Los Angeles and El Chevo. The list has 25 records from 1970 to 2022, one or two by each name and only a small part of what they made; the song of the Mosquitia, the church music, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Honduras and most of the classical tradition, and the many records that never reached streaming, the album that carried Sopa de caracol among them, are left for other lists. About 19 hours of music, 3 days of a few records each.

By genre

Rock 10%Reggae 6%Pop 5%Other 79%
  • Rock 10%
  • Reggae 6%
  • Pop 5%
  • Other 79%

The genres named most: honduran, punta, rock, garifuna, pop, paranda.

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: Honduras 25. The deeper the colour, the more albums: one, two to four, five to nine, ten and more.

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