As part of Michigan Radio’s Songs from Studio East series we are exploring music that combines both contemporary and traditional music from around the world. The West Michigan band “ Cabildo " blends rock, folk, cumbia and ska. Julio Cano is from the Patagonia region of Chile. He's the lead singer of the eight member collective and he a guitarist. Cano draws inspiration from Latin American roots music like the ubiquitous cumbia style dance rhythm. "And this if funny because we grew up listening to cumbia, but we hated it," says Cano. "We hated boleros, we hated cumbias. And this is not only us, so people within our age that grew up on rock en español, started playing 2-4, like rock rhythms, but eventually we grew up, we became old and our perspective of things changed and we started looking back into our culture and realized those songs weren’t that stupid (laughs)." Another member of the band is also named Julio. And just like his band mate Julio Viveros wanted to get away from the
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