Afro-Peruvian music

Afro-Peruvian music, African Peruvian music, Black Peruvian Music, Música afroperuana (English: African Peruvian Music), or Música negra (English: Black music), is a type of Latin American music first developed in Peru by enslaved black people from West Africa, where it is known as Festejo. The genre is a fusion of West African and Spanish music that expresses joy and culture while also including elements of Indigenous Andean culture and way of life. The foundations of Afro-Peruvian music were shaped by cultural exchanges, intermarriage, and cultural fusions of colonial Spanish, Indigenous Andean, and West African traditions because of forced migration.

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