# Tropipop > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tropipop > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tropipop.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropipop > Source revision: 1347938837 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Music genre Tropipop Stylistic origins Music of the Caribbean Region of Colombia, vallenato, salsa, merengue, pop, pop rock, funk, Latin pop Cultural origins Late 1980s, Colombia Typical instruments Vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, accordion, drums, Latin percussion **Tropipop** (also known as **Colombian pop**[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] and **Trop-pop**) is a [music genre](/source/Music_genre) that developed in [Colombia](/source/Colombia) in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It is a blend of [traditional musical forms](/source/Music_of_Colombia#Caribbean_Region_of_Colombia) of the [Caribbean Region of Colombia](/source/Caribbean_Region_of_Colombia), mainly [vallenato](/source/Vallenato), with foreign Latin genres such as [salsa](/source/Salsa_music) and [merengue](/source/Merengue_music), and pop and [pop rock](/source/Pop_rock). The term "tropipop" comes from the [portmanteau](/source/Portmanteau) of the words "[tropical](/source/Tropical_music)" and "pop music" describing the genre's mix of Latin tropical roots with [American popular music](/source/American_popular_music).[1] Some popular tropipop acts are [Fanny Lu](/source/Fanny_Lu), [Fonseca](/source/Fonseca_(singer)), [Bonka](/source/Bonka_(band)),[2] [Mauricio & Palodeagua](/source/Mauricio_%26_Palodeagua), [Lucas Arnau](/source/Lucas_Arnau) and the internationally successful [Carlos Vives](/source/Carlos_Vives). ## History "Neo-Tropipop" group Marenka ### Early development Since the early emergence of [Colombian rock](/source/Colombian_rock) in the 1960s and 1970s, bands like [Genesis (Colombian rock band)](/source/Genesis_(Colombian_rock_band)) began to experiment fusing traditional Colombian music with pop rock. In the following decades, rock bands like [Aterciopelados](/source/Aterciopelados) continued bringing elements of Colombian folklore into rock music. ### Carlos Vives and La Provincia The stylistic origins of tropipop can be traced back to 1993 when [Carlos Vives](/source/Carlos_Vives) released the album [Clásicos de la Provincia](/source/Cl%C3%A1sicos_de_la_Provincia). This very popular album was notable for the use of rock instruments like electric guitars to sing traditional [vallenato](/source/Vallenato) songs. Vives' and his band, La provincia, continued experimenting the fusion of vallenato and cumbia with pop, rock and funk in their subsequent albums [La Tierra del Olvido](/source/La_Tierra_del_Olvido) and [Tengo Fe](/source/Tengo_Fe). For his following album, [El Amor de Mi Tierra](/source/El_Amor_de_Mi_Tierra), Vives hooked up with the successful [Cuban American](/source/Cuban_American) producer [Emilio Estefan](/source/Emilio_Estefan). Estefan stylized Vives music into a more pop-oriented sound, with less instrumental breaks, more prominent vocal parts, and less dominant [vallenato](/source/Vallenato) and [cumbia](/source/Cumbia) elements. Vives continued this sound in his next two albums, gaining a lot of success. It was this stylized fusion style, heard in Vives songs such as "[Tu Amor Eterno](/source/Tu_Amor_Eterno)", which was later adopted by tropipop artists. Vives' influence and success was so big that it has been said that all the artists that came after him playing fusions of pop rock and vallenato are either "*imitators or part of the school that he formed*".[3] ### Tropipop In the early 2000s, young musicians from [Bogotá](/source/Bogot%C3%A1) and other big Colombian cities, inspired by Carlos Vives' success began recording fusions of vallenato and pop rock. What a decade before would have been considered experimental, was now mainstream. The group of artists which played this style of fusion began being commercialized under the term tropipop. During the 2000s, tropipop became the most popular music genre in Colombia alongside [reggaeton](/source/Reggaeton). Furthermore, some artists gained some success internationally. [Mauricio & Palodeagua](/source/Mauricio_%26_Palodeagua) were nominated for a [Latin Grammy](/source/Latin_Grammy) in 2004 and Bogotan singer [Fonseca](/source/Fonseca_(singer)) won one in 2006. ## Criticism Due to the simplistic nature of the music, and the lack of prominence of Colombian traditional music elements in favour of pop music structures, Tropipop has been criticised by sectors of the public and the media for its lack of originality. For example, it has been said that Tropipop is "a cocktail that has a little bit of rock, two drops of [accordion](/source/Accordion), a [pinch](/source/Pinch_(cooking)) of [cumbia](/source/Cumbia) and a singer with a fashioned look".[4] Critics[*[who?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions)*] generally agree in saying that Tropipop musicians have not really investigated Colombian folklore to include Colombian traditional music in a genuine way. They[*[who?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions)*] say that the Colombian elements in tropipop are superficial. Critics usually also give preference to fusions different from Tropipop as the ones made in Carlos Vives' early albums, or the ones played by [Sidestepper](/source/Sidestepper) and [Bomba Estereo](/source/Bomba_Estereo). However, some critics defend the tropipop artists will to include Caribbean elements in their music. ## Artists These are some of the artists whose main genre is tropipop: - [Fonseca](/source/Fonseca_(singer)) - [Wamba](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wamba_(band)&action=edit&redlink=1) - [Fanny Lu](/source/Fanny_Lu) - [Juanes](/source/Juanes) - [Bacilos](/source/Bacilos) - Jerau - Sanalejo - [Lucas Arnau](/source/Lucas_Arnau) - [Carlos Vives](/source/Carlos_Vives) - [Bonka](/source/Bonka_(band)) - [Maía](/source/Ma%C3%ADa) - [Mauricio & Palo de Agua](/source/Mauricio_%26_Palodeagua) - [Pasabordo](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pasabordo&action=edit&redlink=1) - Gusi - [Sin Ánimo de Lucro](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sin_Animo_de_Lucro&action=edit&redlink=1) - [Qarto Aparte](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Qarto_Aparte&action=edit&redlink=1) - [Little Jesus](/source/Little_Jesus_(band)) - [Katamarán](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Katamar%C3%A1n&action=edit&redlink=1) - [Lali](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lali_(band)&action=edit&redlink=1) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-tropi_1-0)** semestre, estudiantes primer. ["TROPIPOP"](http://nuestrosfavoritos.galeon.com/). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-tropicol_2-0)** ["alolatinoBLOG » Blog Archive » TROPIPOP: Colombia"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110718195312/http://blog.alolatino.de/latino/paises/colombia/tropipop-colombia/). Archived from [the original](http://blog.alolatino.de/latino/paises/colombia/tropipop-colombia/) on 2011-07-18. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-tiempo_3-0)** Así ve Carlos Vives a sus herederos del 'tropipop' (Vives II parte). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-peste_4-0)** [Del tropipop a la tropipeste](http://www.eltiempo.com/participacion/blogs/default/un_articulo.php?id_blog=3509446&id_recurso=300000882) [Deprecated link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance) archived 2013-01-22 at [archive.today](/source/Archive.today) v t e Music genres in the Hispanosphere Andean Bambuco Carnavalito Diablada Huayno Morenada Saya Tinku Spaniard folk Catalan rumba Copla Fandango Flamenco Alboreá Bulerías Cantiñas Flamenco jazz Rumba flamenca Saeta Soleá Folia Isa (from Canary Islands) Jota Malagueña Pasodoble Tajaraste Zarzuela Latin urban Hip hop House Reggae R&B Trap Reggaeton Alternative Bachatón Moombahton Neoperreo Panamanian Litoraleña Chamarrita Guarania Paraguayan polka Chamamé Peruvian coastal Afro-Peruvian music Festejo Landó Son de los Diablos Toro Mata Marinera Tondero Vals Zamacueca Latin pop Ballad Colombian Mexican Nueva canción Nueva trova Regional Mexican Corrido Corridos tumbados Conjunto Norteño Nortec Tejano Grupera Duranguense Banda Mariachi Jarabe Ranchera Trival Southern Cone Candombe Cueca Música cebolla Milonga Murga Tango Argentine tango Milonga Vals Neotango Nuevo tango Uruguayan tango Bandoneon Orquesta típica Rock Alternative Argentine Chicano Chilean Colombian Cuban Dominican Ecuadorian Latin rock Metal Mexican Nueva ola Peruvian Puerto Rican Spanish Uruguayan Venezuelan Traditional folk Chacarera Gaita zuliana Gato Joropo Mexican Son huasteco jalisciense jarocho Tonada Zamacueca Cueca Marinera Zamba Tropical Bachata Bolero Calypso Cha-cha-cha Champeta Changüí Charanga Conga Cuarteto Danzón Guajira Guaracha Mambo Merengue Méringue Pachanga Rumba Guaguancó Salsa dura romántica Son cubano montuno Timba Trova Vallenato (Charanga-vallenata) Cumbia Argentine Bullerengue Colombian Mexican New Chilean Panamanian Peruvian Pop Porro Rap Tecnocumbia Villera Cachaca Afro-Latin Afro-Peruvian music Bomba Bomba del Chota Candombe Latin jazz Afro-Cuban jazz Mapalé Milonga Tambor Tropical music Other genres Aguinaldo Canción melódica Christian Contradanza Criolla Danza Décima Pasacalle Pasillo Plena Pregón Punto guajiro Seis Spanish opera Spanish jazz Villancico Related Latin music subgenres Hispanic-influenced music in the Philippines v t e Pop music Stylistic origins Tin Pan Alley Traditional pop Rock and roll Styles Adult contemporary Christian Quiet storm Rhythmic Urban Alternative Ambient Art Avant Beach Beat Brill Building Bubblegum Bubblegrunge Chamber Contemporary Christian music Country Bro-country Cowboy Cringe Dancehall Dance Freestyle Crunkcore Disco polo Dream Experimental Folk Hyperpop Hypnagogic Indie Dunedin sound Twee Operatic Orchestral Baroque Pop rap Pop rock Dream Emo Jangle Paisley Underground Pop metal Bubblegrunge Pop-punk Power Soft rock Tropical rock Yacht rock Progressive Psychedelic Recession Schlager Sophisti-pop Space age Sunshine Swamp Synth-pop Electropop Futurepop Teen Traditional Wonky Regional variants Africa Africa Afrobeats Moroccan The Americas American Argentine Brazilian (MPB) Brega pop Choro Cumbia Pop Latin Tropipop Mexican Nueva ola Asia Arabic Armenian Assyrian Azerbaijani Chinese Cantopop Hakka Hokkien Mandopop French Xinyao Zhongguo feng Gufeng Hong Kong English Indian Bhangra Hindutva Indonesian Melankolis Kreatif Iranian Japanese City Kayōkyoku Ryūkōka Shibuya-kei Kazakhstani Korean North South Lao Malaysian Pakistani Philippine Taiwanese Campus folk Hakka Taigi Indigenous Mandopop Thai Vietnamese Europe Austropop Balkan pop-folk Chalga Laïko Manele Tallava Turbo-folk British New pop Dutch Nederbeat Eurodance Europop French pop French Mandopop Yé-yé Hungarian Italian Macedonian Čalgija Romanian Manele Russian Schlager Serbian Swedish Turkish SFR Yugoslavia Soviet VIA music Ukrainian Related topics Celebrity Bobby-soxer Sasaeng fan Teenybopper Wota Honorific nicknames Lists of pop artists Music and fashion Pop music automation Popular music pedagogy Rockism and poptimism Songwriter Talent manager Talent agent Teen idol Boy band Girl group Verse–chorus form Virtual band Worldbeat --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Tropipop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropipop) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropipop?action=history)). 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