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n. A type of Mexican brass band music

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Banda (music)

Banda is a brass-based form of traditional Mexican music. Bandas play a wide variety of songs, including rancheras, corridos, cumbias, baladas, and boleros. Band are most widely known for their rancheras, but they also play modern Mexican pop, rock, and cumbias. Most Banda music is very clearly a dialect of polka and will seem familiar and appealing to fans of polka or traditional German and Polish music.

The late Jenni Rivera years' long career included such honors as 20 million albums sold, making her the highest earning banda singer of all time. She is also responsible for bringing a female perspective to what had historically been a male-dominated genre. La Banda El Recodo, Banda Machos, Banda Maguey, La Arrolladora Banda El Limón, La Original Banda El Limón, Banda MS, Banda Cuisillos, Banda Jerez, and Banda Los Recoditos are some of the most famous banda groups. Despite banda being a male-dominated genre, there are a few female soloist banda-singers such as Ana Gabriel, Carmen Jara, Shaila Durcal, and Ana Bárbara. There's also a handful all-female bandas such as Banda Las Soñadoras and Banda Las Tapatias, both from Guadalajara, Jalisco. Jenni Rivera, the highest earning banda singer of all-time

Banda (Lok Sabha constituency)

Banda is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituency in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India.

Banda (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Banda Vidhan Sabha constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency came into existence in 1951, as one of the Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state.

Banda (surname)

Banda is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Abdallah Banda (born 1963), Sudanese military commander
  • Aleke Banda (1939–2010), Malawian politician
  • Bobbie Banda (1947–2013), American Juaneño elder
  • Banda Kanakalingeshwara Rao (1907–1968), Indian stage actor
  • Banda Karthika Reddy (born 1977), Indian politician
  • Banda Singh Bahadur (1670–1716), Sikh military leader
  • Carlos Banda (born 1978), Chilean-Swedish football manager
  • Chikondi Banda (1979–2013), Malawian footballer
  • Chimunthu Banda, Malawian politician
  • Christopher John Banda (1974–2009), Malawian footballer
  • Davi Banda (born 1983), Malawian footballer
  • Dennis Banda (born 1988), Zambian football goalkeeper
  • Elizet Banda (born 1988), Zambian runner
  • Etta Banda, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malawi
  • Gift Banda (born 1969), Zimbabwean soccer administrator
  • Gilbert Banda (born 1983), Zimbabwean football player
  • Gongalegoda Banda (1809–1849), Sri Lankan rebellion leader
  • Hastings Banda (1898–1997), former President of Malawi
  • Jacob Banda (born 1988), Zambian footballer
  • Joyce Banda (born 1950), President of Malawi
  • Kumbulani Banda (born 1989), Zimbabwean footballer
  • Lewis Banda (born 1982), Zimbabwean sprinter
  • Lucius Banda (born 1970), Malawian musician and politician
  • M. D. Banda (born 1914), Sri Lankan politician
  • Y. J. Banda (born 1987), South African Writer
  • Patrick Banda (1974–1993), Zambian footballer
  • Richard Banda, Malawian jurist and athlete
  • Rupiah Banda (born 1937), President of Zambia
  • Sead Banda (born 1990), Montenegrin footballer
  • Siva Subrahmanyam Banda, Indian-American aerospace engineer
  • William makhanda Banda, Plant Monitor at Venetia Mine
Banda (Ghana parliament constituency)

Ahmed Ibrahim is the member of parliament for the constituency. He was elected on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and won a majority of 5,645 votes representing 52.76% to become the MP. He defeated Joe Danquah who had 4,950 votes representing 46.27% who stood on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). .

Banda (opera)

In opera, a banda ( Italian for band) refers to a musical ensemble (normally of wind instruments) which is used in addition to the main orchestra and plays the music which is actually heard by the characters in the opera. A banda sul palco (band on the stage) was prominently used in Rossini's Neapolitan operas. Verdi used the term banda to refer to a banda sul palco, as in the score for Rigoletto. He used the term banda interna (internal band), to refer to a band which is still separate from the orchestra but heard from the off-stage wings. The early scores of La traviata use a banda interna.

Usage examples of "banda".

Volcanoes were supposed to be the entrances to the infernal regions, and towards the south-east the whole region beyond the river Okeanos of Homer, from Java to Sumbawa and the sea of Banda, was sufficiently studded with mighty peaks to warrant the idea they may have originated.

And to come neerer to the matter, it is not long since that in the east the Islands of Banda were diuers of them overflowen and drowned by the sea.

We have here, on the extreme confines of the world, as the cartographer expresses it, Sumatra, Banda, Java, Bali, Lomboc, Sumbawa, etc.

September 1509 Sequeira anchored at Malacca, the great emporium of the east, to which were brought cloves from the Moluccas, nutmegs from Banda, sandalwood from Timor, camphor from Borneo, gold from Sumatra and Loo Choo, and gums, spices and other precious commodities from China, Japan, Siam, Pegu, etc.

Alfonso de Albuquerque sent three ships to the Islands of Banda and Maluco.

The one referred to is not the one near Ternate, but in the Banda Sea.

We correct the phrase, which should read thus: In the year 1512 they departed from Banda toward Malacca, and on the baxos or flats of Lucapinho Francis Serrano was wrecked with his junk, from whence he escaped unto the Isle of Amboina with nine or ten Portugals which were with him, and the Kings of Maluco sent for them.

Ceram, other islands of the Banda Sea, and perhaps what was known of New Guinea.

Olha a Sunda tao larga, que huma banda Esconde para o sul difficultuoso.

Malucas it is all islands, and on the south side are many uniting with those of Banda and Amboyna, where the Dutch carry on a trade.

East and South Lands: Thomasz Pool sent out from Banda to discover the.

The above-named islanders, it is further stated, had of their own free will placed themselves under the rule and protection of the States of the United Netherlands and promised to come and trade with the fortresses of Banda and Amboina.

Tasman, therefore, unless he succeeded in obtaining copies in Banda, must have started on his voyage of exploration without these documents which were so essential to his success in identifying the localities visited and charted by Carstenszoon.

Batavia on 8th February, 1756, but parted company in a storm which was encountered off the Banda Islands.

Freddy looked up in irritation as Jennifer Banda came into the lounge.