Venezuelan music

The music in Venezuela has a very huge variety, it has a lot of African, Spanish and Caribbean influence because of the mixture that existed during the age of slavery. From Africa we got the percussion and that style of dancing we have. From Spain we got strings such as el Cuatro, the Harp and the Mandolin; these instruments are very important in our music named Joropo. From the Caribbean we got our own style of Salsa and Merengue in a Venezuelan style. All these rhythms are mixed in a wonderful cocktail which is our Venezuelan Music