Two hours of cumbia-ology featuring the classic, "Cumbia de la Paz."

The ethnomusical mixture that gave rise to cumbia likely originated during colonization in the indigenous country of Pocabuy, located along the Caribbean coast of modern-day Colombia, in the upper part of the Magdalena River valley, and resulted from the musical and cultural fusion of indigenous people, Africans, and Spaniards.
There is evidence that cumbia or was born in the funeral ceremonies of Pocabuy, where the Chimillas Indians danced around the coffin when one of their hierarchs died, in the opposite direction to the clock hands, which for them signified a journey with no return.
The Pocabuy are mentioned in various recordings, perhaps most famously in the chorus of the song, "Cumbia de la Paz," recorded by José Francisco Chico Cervantes Moreno: "Sublime ritual of the Pocabuy, in the cumbia wheel, they said goodbye to the brave warriors that died there, that died there, in the peace of the cumbia..."