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Tells the story of the tropical music group Los Cumaná, formed in 1970 in the port of Coquimbo. This group was distinguished by performing original repertoire at a time when the trend in Chilean tropical music was to cover a repertoire that was fundamentally international. Los Cumaná recorded six full-length albums between 1970 and 1976, toured throughout northern Chile, and also performed abroad: in Peru, the United States, and Belgium. Their intense and rich trajectory was marked not only by the success the group achieved in its early years, but also by the difficulties this group of young musicians from Coquimbo had to face.
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00:09The People's Cumanas
00:10The People's Cumanas
00:10here in Coquimbo
00:11the guy of the Cumanas
00:13is a complete success.
00:14The group,
00:15he consolidated
00:17in a very rapid way.
00:18He listened to the sound
00:19and said,
00:20he wants a long play.
00:23We have started producing lots of events
00:25that Hernan Gallardo Paredes
00:28so that the group can do it.
00:30This is a futurist for that time.
00:34That's what we did.
00:36In those years it was hard to win a group of provinces.
00:42The one who received the money was the Marinero,
00:46with 36.000 copies at that time.
00:48It was a forgetful experience to go to Peru.
00:51It's like to go to Mexico and bring a group of ranchers here in Chile.
00:54It was a group that we did visualizing some kind of development,
00:58but we never had to come to the United States, never.
01:01When we were on the beach, we were on a scene,
01:04and we were on that scene.
01:06It's a dream.
01:08It's a dream.
01:10It's a dream.
01:11It was one of the first discotheques that they did in Coquimbo.
01:14All this was, look at this table,
01:17the tables with the sea.
01:20There was a scene and there was a piano vertical,
01:24and a black one too, that they played.
01:34But now it belongs to a casino that there was.
01:38Dansung Kumaná, it was called.
01:40It was called.
01:41First of all, the language was difficult.
01:42It didn't understand anything.
01:44Only the people who speak a little Spanish could speak.
01:49The music had to start at the 10.30am
01:54and not stop playing until the 5.00am.
01:57The rhythm of the Kumaná was very close.
02:01It's easy to dance.
02:03So the Belgian boys were going to wave the patties.
02:13I would like to play with my friends, with Lush, with Tito, with my brother Juan, but I don't know
02:19if I will be able to play that.

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