Rumba is a Latin-influenced style popular throughout Spain and beyond, unlike pure Flamenco which is mainly popular in Andalucia in the South of Spain.
Rumba has a wide range of styles from slow and romantic to the fast hip-hop style of Rumba Catalana, and also the Rumba Flamenca, played using Flamenco styles and harmonies.
In Spain a large number of popular songs may also be played in a Rumba style, for example The Beatles – All My Loving Spanish Rumba version – YouTube because after all “la rumba es la madre y a ella todos les cantamos”.
Rumba
- Bambino – La Pared – Lyrics/chords – YouTube
- Bordón 4 – Me Muero por Ella – Lyrics/chords – YouTube
- Camarón – Amor del Conuco – Lyics/chords – YouTube – Camarón + Latin original Luis Guerra
- Gipsy Kings – Tu Quieres Volver – Lyrics/chords – YouTube
- Gipsy Kings – Volare – Lyrics/chords – YouTube
- Gypsy Kings – Bamboléo – Lyrics/chords – YouTube
- José El Francés – Ya No Quiero Tu Querer – Lyrics/chords – YouTube
- Kiko Veneno – Echo de Menos – Lyrics/chords – Baidu – YouTube (low-fi live version with audience singing) – YouTube (a slow version)
- Kiko Veneno – Volando Voy – Lyrics/chords – YouTube version Camarón
- La Negra Tomasa – Guillermo Rodríguez Fiffe version rumba Chano Lobato : Fideito – Lyrics/chords – YouTube: Chano Lobato
+ Mexican version – YouTube: Caifanes - Las Grecas – Te Estoy Amando Locamente – Lyrics/chords – YouTube
- La Pegatina – Mari Carmen – Lyrics/chords – YouTube (great comic video)
- Lolita Flores – Sarandonga – Lyrics/chords – YouTube
- Los Chichos – Ni Mas Ni Menos – Lyrics/chords – YouTube
- Los Del Río – Sevilla Tiene Un Color Especial – Lyrics/chords – YouTube
- Manzanita – Un Ramito De Violetas (by Cecilia) – Lyrics/chords – YouTube – Manzanita – YouTube – Cecilia version
- Manzanita – Verde Te Quiero Verde – Lyrics/chords – YouTube – version with Ketama
- Navajita Plateá – Noches de Bohemia – Lyrics/chords – YouTube
- Pata Negra – Yo Me Quedo en Sevilla – Lyrics/chords – YouTube
- Potito – Estrellas de Colores – Lyrics/chords – YouTube
- Speedy Gonzalez (English and Spanish versions) – Lyrics/chords – YouTube – Pat Boone version – YouTube – Kumbia All Starz Spanish version with great video
Canciones populares
Popular Latin songs are often also sung in Flamenco style, either adapted to flamenco forms (Amor del Conuco – Rumba, Volver – Argentinian Tango converted to flamenco Bulerías rhythm) or simply sung in flamenco voice (examples by Diego el Cigala below), in the end it’s useless to classify the classic songs, play them how you like.
- Besame Mucho – Consuelo Velázquez – version Cesaria Evora Lyrics/chords – YouTube
- Alfonsino y el Mar – Ariel Ramírez y Félix Luna – Lyrics/chords – YouTube version Mercedes Sosa
- La Bamba – Ritchie Valens – Lyrics/chords – YouTube
- Quizás Quizás Quizás – Osvaldo Farrés – YouTube version Ibrahim Ferrer & Omara Portuondo (great performance)
- Con Los Anos Que Me Quedan – Gloria Estefan – YouTube
- Marieta – Javier Krahe – Lyrics/chords – YouTube
- Volver – versión flamenco Estrella Morente y Vicente Amigo del pelicula Volver (YouTube), original
- Lágrimas negras – Miguel Matamoros – YouTube version Diego el Cigala & Bebo Valdés disco Lágrimas Negras
- Historia de un amor – Carlos Eleta Almarán – YouTube version Diego el Cigala & Bebo Valdés
- Guantanamera – José Martí, José Fernández – Lyrics/chords – YouTube version Julio Iglesias
- Pequeño Vals Vienes – Federico Garcia Lorca – Lyrics/chords – (first put to music in English by Leonard Cohen, recorded in Spanish by flamenco singer Enrique Morente and by Pachi Garcia for film La Novia)
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