Punta Rock

Punta rock is a combination of Central American music style, the traditional Punta rhythms with modern pop music. According to the geographical distribution of Punta Punta rock is played almost exclusively in the settlement areas of the Garifuna in Belize, Honduras and Guatemala as well as in U.S. cities with significant Garifuna communities and heard.

History

The Garifuna, half-breeds from West African slaves and Carib Indians, settled in the 19th century in their present settlements along. They brought the Punta dance with him, a fertility dance of African origin, who was accompanied by percussive drums, maracas and unused as percussion instruments turtle shell. In the 1970s, the acceptance of the sung in Garifuna traditional music fell on the only English-speaking youth. One of the first who combined Punta rhythms with modern instruments, the Belizean artist Pen Cayetano, the 1979 Turtle Shell band founded and traditional music was, inter alia, through the use of electric guitars gave a modern touch. In the aftermath integrated other musicians, such as Gerald "Lord" Rhaburn, elements of Calypso and Soca in Punta rock and gave him so its present form. Meanwhile, an increased need for national music (usually not very demanding ) lyrics are often held back in Garifuna, also because since the Belizean independence in 1981, there is.

Artists

Famous musicians and bands that (also) Punta play rock, are: Belize: Aziatic, Pen Cayetano, Griga Boyz, Mohobub Flores, Paul Nabor, Andy Palacio, Punta Rebels, Sounds Incorporated Guatemala: Paula Castillo Honduras: Banda Blanca, Góbana, Aurelio Martinez