Celso Piña was to the accordion what George Harrison was to the guitar. The late Mexican folk pioneer, remembered
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, El Gran Silencio, and Control Machete, the album was a global smash. Album highlight “Cumbia Sobre el Río” was transformed from a simple Latin folk song into a hybrid of cumbia, reggae, and rap music.
; Piña’s performance of the song with Pato Machete, frontman of Mexican rap-rock group Control Machete, would stand as a career highlight for the musician. In the years since his transformation into global accordion icon, Piña continued to collaborate with modern Latin music stars like Julieta Venegas, Gloria Trevi, and Lila Downs — the latter of which he performed with at the 2012 Latin Grammys. Earlier this summer, Piña featured on Cuban-Mexican alternative singer Leiden’s single, “
.” Piña continued to tour across the world until his death, with his final performance occurring at Chicago’s Pilsen Fest. author, Gabriel García Márquez, dancing cumbia at a show in 2003 — perhaps the most high-caliber endorsement he’d receive during his 30-year career.
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