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  • noun Plural form of cumbia.

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Examples

  • Inside the bar, on any given night, customers drink and dance to the cumbias and Mexican pop standards blasting on the juke.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • Early on, I debate whether I should go down to the guys who sell Shania Twain and Beyoncé, cumbias and reggaeton, Vicente Fernández, and an audio English-learning program, and tell them, “Yo, guys, can you turn it down a little?”

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • Inside the bar, on any given night, customers drink and dance to the cumbias and Mexican pop standards blasting on the juke.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • On Saturday, Malian and Balkan music will be on the bill, as will the crackling Colombian cumbias of Brooklyn's Chicha Libre and in-demand session guitarist Smokey Hormel.

    Troubadours, Technicians and Dixie Chickens Andy Beta 2012

  • Inside the bar, on any given night, customers drink and dance to the cumbias and Mexican pop standards blasting on the juke.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • Early on, I debate whether I should go down to the guys who sell Shania Twain and Beyoncé, cumbias and reggaeton, Vicente Fernández, and an audio English-learning program, and tell them, “Yo, guys, can you turn it down a little?”

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • Early on, I debate whether I should go down to the guys who sell Shania Twain and Beyoncé, cumbias and reggaeton, Vicente Fernández, and an audio English-learning program, and tell them, “Yo, guys, can you turn it down a little?”

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • Placido Domingo dignified this music singing two cumbias in his CD,

    Why I Love To Dance Mexican Style 2008

  • Placido Domingo dignified this music singing two cumbias in his CD,

    Why I Love To Dance Mexican Style 2008

  • Give me son jarocho, or those cumbias from Columbia, even regaton (sp?).

    A quick question about banda music 2007

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