The Gaita is the name of a venezuelan folk music from Maracaibo, Zulia
state, is a christmas music, and it came to Venezuela from Africa, Gaita
was the name of an African Flute, the afroamerican people in Venezuela
started to play it, and new instruments were adding, like the traditional
cuatro, the maracas, the furro and charrasca, it popularized in the middle
60´s of the XX century in all the country, and it fused with other types of
music like salsa and merengue in the 70´s. There are many famous Gaita
groups like: Maracaibo 15, Gran Coquivacoa, Barrio Obrero, Cardenales
del Éxito, Guaco (band) (when Guaco started was a gaita group, now is a
salsa group), Koquimba, Melody Gaita, Estrellas del Zulia, Saladillo, and
many others.
Types
There are many types of Gaita.
Of Furro Gaitas
The Folk Gaita (disappeared)
The Contemporary Gaita
The Pop Gaita
The Romantic Gaita
Other types, from Zulia and Venezuela
The Santa Lucía Gaita
The Tambora Gaita
The Perijanera Gaita
The Eastern Gaita
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Hugo Sulbaran
Editor
