Here’s how cumbia arrived in Monterrey, a mountain city in Mexico often called “Colombia chiquita"

In the 1960s, DJs who collected cumbia and tropical records began playing at clubs and street parties. They reshaped the music, creating cumbia rebajada, or slowed-down cumbia.

This new style, along with Monterrey’s fascination with Colombia, sparked an urban subculture that remains vibrant today.

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