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55 albums · 1950–2021

Music of Peru, from Chabuca Granda and the huayno to chicha, Los Saicos, Susana Baca and today

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Susana Baca singing on stage with her musicians
Los Mirlos playing on stage, the singer at the microphone and the guitarist beside himA couple dancing the marinera, her skirt flying, in front of a full stand
Susana Baca with her band at the Quinta de El Pardo in Madrid in 2017. Photo: Diario de Madrid, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · Los Mirlos on stage at the YAAM in Berlin in 2017. Photo: Montecruz Foto, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · A couple dancing the marinera at the national contest in Trujillo in 2010. Photo: Bukowskiperuano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Peru's popular music has the vals criollo of Lima and the cajón under it, in Chabuca Granda, Lucha Reyes, Arturo Zambo Cavero and Eva Ayllón, the festejo and landó that Nicomedes Santa Cruz, Perú Negro and Susana Baca carried on, the huayno of the Andes in Picaflor de los Andes, Pastorita Huaracina and the Ayacucho guitars of Raúl García Zárate and Manuelcha Prado, the chicha that Los Destellos, Juaneco y su Combo and Los Mirlos brought down from the Amazon and Chacalón and Los Shapis sang to Lima, the garage rock of Los Saicos and Traffic Sound, Frágil and Pedro Suárez-Vértiz, and today Kanaku y el Tigre, Dengue Dengue Dengue and Renata Flores, who raps in Quechua. The list has 55 records from 1950 to 2021, one or two by each name and only a small part of what they made; the huayno of each region beyond a few, the song of the Amazon, the brass bands of the fiestas and most of the classical tradition, with Juan Diego Flórez as a single nod, are left for other lists. About 38 hours of music, 5 days of a few records each.

By genre

Rock 16%Latin 6%World 5%Other 73%
  • Rock 16%
  • Latin 6%
  • World 5%
  • Other 73%

The genres named most: peruvian, chicha, huayno, afro-peruvian, andean, cumbia.

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: Peru 55. The deeper the colour, the more albums: one, two to four, five to nine, ten and more.

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  • IsqunRenata Flores · 2021

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