 However, as it developed, particularly in the 20th century, it drew on Andean, Spanish, and African traditions, while its modern exponents also have affinities with Andean "nueva canción".As a result, the hotbed for Afro-Peruvian music are the small coastal towns of Chincha and Cañete, not too far south of Peru’s capital, Lima.The music was little known even in Peru until the 1950s, when it was popularized by the seminal performer Nicomedes Santa Cruz and Victoria Santa Cruz, whose body of work was taken a step further in the 1970s by the group Perú Negro.