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: ''rumi'' stone, ''llaqta'' place (village, city), pronounced ) is a

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musical group that formed in 1980, by Juan Jorge Laura Quisbert, and became one of the most important progenitors of

Andean music Andean music is a group of styles of music from the Andes region in South America. Original chants and melodies come from the general area inhabited by Quechua people, Quechuas (originally from Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile), Aymara people, Aymar ...

. They were the subjects of a short documentary from the

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and played at festivals on three continents (Asia, Europe and America). Their music concerns folk themes and nature as well as more political themes like foreign exploitation and indigenous rights. The virtuosity, the unique style and innovation with which it presents the music of the high mountains and its warm valleys, have given the group its international prestige as one of the first in the genre of traditional music and as one of the finest and most serious exponents of Andean music. In 1989, they performed with the

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, in the Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park, in the summer series, on a concert entitled, Music of the Americas.

Discography

;Albums *''Pueblo de Piedra'' (1981) *''Tierra Mestiza'' (1983) *''City of Stone'' (1984) *''Hoja De Coca'' (1984) *''Pachamama'' (1986) *''Wiracocha'' (1987) *''Urupampa'' (1991) *''Atahuallpa'' (1993) *''Takiririllasu'' (1995) *''Pachakuti'' (2001)

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