"During the worst days of his life, as he waited with poisonous uncertainty to find out the severity of his cancer, Chuck Prophet could only distract himself with the records in his vinyl collection... After two weeks, the doctors informed him that he had a treatable lymphoma, and he breathed a sigh of relief. But his body was still craving that folkloric sound he had heard, as varied and rich as all the Latin and Caribbean communities where it developed."
"Cumbia only asks you to get out of bed, he explains. It is not the music that an old Anglo man like me usually listens to... I didn't know anything about this genre, but my body was hankering for something like that. Cumbia just asks you to get out of bed."
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