Kumbia Queers

Formed in Buenos Aires in 2007, Kumbia Queers brings together musicians from the Argentine punk rock scene, initially alongside Mexican singer Ali Gua Gua. Kumbia Queers began from a desire to make cumbia and tropical music converse with the energy of punk, at first by transforming songs by The Cure, Madonna, Ramones and Black Sabbath into quirky, danceable versions, before developing a largely original repertoire. The band builds a concise, festive and confrontational tropipunk aesthetic, with lyrics that address gender, desire, social norms and violence against women, often in an ironic mode. After Kumbia nena! (2007) and La gran estafa del tropipunk (2010), Kumbia Queers intensified their songwriting on Pecados Tropicales (2012). Their trajectory continued with Canta y no llores (2015) following a lineup change, and with La oscuridad bailable (2019), where they broadened their formula by integrating electronic textures into their cumbia-punk base. Over the years, Kumbia Queers has performed across Latin America, Europe and the United States.