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What language is bossa nova usually sung in?
Answer: Portuguese
Why: Even its name is Portuguese: bossa nova means roughly new trend or new wave.
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Who recorded the original Mambo No. 5 in 1949?
Answer: Pérez Prado
Why: Lou Bega's 1999 hit version was built on a sample of that original recording.
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How many strings does today's Puerto Rican cuatro have?
Answer: 10
Why: Its name means four in Spanish, after the four strings the earliest cuatros had.
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Where was cumbia born?
Answer: Colombia
Why: It arose on Colombia's Caribbean coast from Indigenous, African and Spanish roots, then spread to Mexico.
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Which animal's shell was the traditional body of a charango?
Answer: Armadillo
Why: Among Quechua and Aymara communities of the high Andean Altiplano, the little instrument first took shape.
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Which country's 1980s Spanish reggae is the root of reggaeton?
Answer: Panama
Why: Puerto Rico shaped the genre in the 1990s, but at first the island called this music underground, not reggaeton.
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