People
Bety Ochoa
Biography:
Composer and singer of cumbia accordion and walk in San Jacinto (Bolívar). In her youth she participated in various festivals singing with Andrés Landero, she especially remembers the Sabanero Festival in Arjona at the end of the 70s. Among others, she composed the song “Noche de luna Llena”, widely recognized in Mexico.
In its origins cumbia is of African precedence, it seems to derive from the cumbé voice a popular dance from Guinea in the Batá area of Africa; over time it became a mestizo dance when subjected to indigenous and Hispanic influence. There are different types of traditional Colombian cumbias, among which two main ones can be identified: the cumbia de gaitas... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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Female Singers. Memories of Life and Death in Colombia | 2013-07-25 |