The late Celso Piña's innovative cumbia sound may seem like it sprung fully formed, but it was actually years in the making. Piña started playing regional music with his brothers in Monterrey, Mexico, but everything changed when his father gave him his first accordion. He taught himself to play, first focusing on vallenato and then tropical and cumbia in the group Celso Piña y Su Ronda Bogotá. His hybrid style, which occasionally took in influences from ska and reggae to hip-hop and R&B, not only attracted collaborators such as Lila Downs, Julieta Venegas, Café Tacvba and Gloria Trevi, but would also earn the singer/instrumentalist a Latin Grammy nomination for his 2001 LP, Barrio Bravo. His 2017 live album, Música Es Música, which featured grand orchestration from La Orquesta de Baja California, only further highlighted the exuberance and range he brought to cumbia.