Perú Negro

Afro-Peruvian music, also known as "musica criolla", finds its roots in West African music, Spanish andEuropean genres and native musical traditions from Peru. After a long struggle to preserve it through oral means over generations, a renewed interest in those rhythms and melodies arose in the 1950s.The dance company Peru Negro won the main award at 1969s Festival Hispanoamericano de la Danza y la Cancion, and a few years later their repertoire was included in two albums which introduced musica criolla and Afro-Peruvian culture to a wider audience, "Son De Los Diablos" being the latter.If you have an interest in Cuban son or Colombian bambuco, this record will be an essential addition to your collection.Reissued on vinyl for the first time and presented in facsimile artwork.