Mexico's Los Ángeles Azules aims to set Coachella fans dancing to cumbia
Over the last 35 years, Mexico's Los Angeles Azules has become one of the country's top-selling bands using something of a radical strategy: introducing new generations to cumbia, the style of dance music considered as unhip in some corners of the Spanish-speaking world as the polka is in the U.S.
The group in recent years has added yet another twist to a genre that younger audiences often dismissed as the antiquated music of their parents and grandparents: a hybrid called "cumbia sinfonica" that combines the compelling bounce of cumbia with the expansive sonic possibilities of a symphony
