Peruvian
La Unica Tropical
Peru
Radio peruana con cumbia tropical y los sonidos autenticos de la cumbia del Peru.
Who La Unica Tropical is
La Unica Tropical is a Peruvian station devoted to the cumbia that fills parties across the country, the kind that comes from big orchestras and voices that pack stadiums. It is not tied to one city: it broadcasts the tropical sound that all of Peru claims as its own.
Its bet is Peruvian cumbia in its most popular, danceable form, the sound that soundtracks weekends, birthdays and family gatherings with the volume turned up.
What you will hear
Here the northern orchestra cumbia rules, led by Grupo 5, the band from Monsefu that fills whole stadiums. You will also hear Corazon Serrano, Agua Marina, Hermanos Yaipen and Armonia 10, the names that define the sound of today's Peruvian cumbia.
It is a repertoire of catchy choruses, timbales and bright keyboards, with those songs of love and heartbreak that everyone ends up singing along to.
Cumbia in Peru
Peruvian cumbia has roots of its own: it was born in the 1960s and 70s by fusing Colombian cumbia with Andean huayno and electric guitars, in what became known as chicha. From there grew a huge scene that now counts the northern orchestras among the biggest acts in the country.
Tuning in to a station like this is a full step into that living tradition, where cumbia stopped being an imported rhythm and became a national soundtrack.
To understand the root of this sound, read about chicha and cumbia in Peru and how it reshaped the country's music.
When you feel like switching stations, explore all the live cumbia stations in one place.
