Spanish Music Styles
Regional Mexican music is one of the most popular genres of U.S. Latin music with artists such as Vicente Fernandez, Espinoza Paz, Los Tigres del Norte, Gerardo Ortiz, Banda El Recodo, Jenni Rivera, Selena, La Arrolladora Banda El Limon, and Marco Antonio Solis bringing in millions of album sales.
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In the later centuries, East Arabs kept on to their traditional music and song, while Arab / Andalusian tunes settled in North Africa and Spain. In Cordova’s golden years, from the ninth to the twelfth centuries, when this capital of Arab Spain matched Baghdad as the world’s most vibrant and most influential city, all technology, including music, was pursued.
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