Hermanos Yaipen is a Cumbia band

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We went to see a band Victoria was very excited about at a casino called Festiva.
They have apparently just returned from a very successful tour of Japan.
Hermanos means "brothers" and the Yaipen is the family name of the guy that assembled and manages the group. I don´t think the actual singers are related in the slightest.

It was actually a pretty good evening.

A cumbia band has a LOT of people on stage.
In this case there are 5 guys that each can sing quite well in their own right plus somewhere around 12 musicians playing trumpet, percussion, keyboard, etc.
The whole band played without much of a break, the singers exercising some kind of rotation through the song list.

As each singer prepared to sing, he would interact with the crowd, tease the girls and so forth, which I´m sure is quite appreciated by their groupies.
Victoria I think would have quite liked to have joined said groupies near the stage, but that section had been sold out before we knew about the performance.

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Victoria at Hermanos Yaipen performance
Cumbia apparently used to be looked down on as "poor peoples music" but is now enjoying a huge surge in popularity across all levels of society.