Mexican cumbia is a type of cumbia, a music which originated in Colombia but was reinvented and adapted in Mexico. Origins The cumbia started in Colombia in the 1800s. In the 1940s Colombian singer Luis Carlos Meyer Castandet emigrated to Mexico where he worked with the Mexican orchestra director Rafael de Paz. In the 1950s he recorded what many believe to be the first cumbia recorded outside of Colombia, "La Cumbia Cienaguera". He recorded other hits like "La historia". This is when Cumbia began to be popularized in Mexico. In the 1970s Aniceto Molina also emigrated to Mexico, where he joined the group from Guerrero, La Luz Roja de San Marcos, and recorded many popular tropical cumbias like "El Gallo Mojado", "El Peluquero", and "La Mariscada". Also in the 1970s Rigo Tovar became very popular with his fusion of cumbia with ballad and rock. Definitions and Variations of Mexican Cumbia Mexican cumbia is like its similar adaptations of Colombian music such as Salvadorian cumbia, Peruvian cumbia or Argentinian cumbia among others. It is not a unification of a single genre which identifies it as seeing those styles that are very diverse and wide ranging, from province to province, from era to era. They have styles that once they are assimilated by the public and the musicians of Colombian cumbia, have the consequence of marking a trend to follow new groupings, such as northern cumbia, southern cumbia, mariachi cumbia or Sonidera cumbia. By giving credit to some of their nationalist variations, it is in turn, a fusion of adapted Colombian folk tales with the nationalists like northern music, mariachi, band music, romantic music, huapango, Son Huasteco, and of course with ancient and modern rhythms from abroad like Son Cuban, salsa, merengue, reggae, ska among the Afro-Caribbean rhythms , as well as the Bolivian, Ecuadorian, Vals and Peruvian folklore, along with the rock & roll, hip-hop, rap, disco, dance, and electronica. In addition to that, these trends have varied according to the popularity of every one of the rhythms and era with what has merged, it has also varied its diffusion range, commonly Central American is the main foreign listening of Mexican cumbia. Subgenres and variations The Mexican cumbia has adapted versions of Colombian music like Peruvian cumbia or Argentine cumbia, among others. This diversity has appeared in different ways. For example, originally the northern cumbia (cumbia norteña) was usually played with