Talk:Zumba/Archives/2016

combine with aerobic exercise
This is not an article. If this is going to be kept, then it should be classified as a Wikimercial. It should be completely rewritten objectively.Jordansmith (talk) 00:37, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Aside from the type of music, Zumba dancing/exercise does not appear to be significantly different from Jazzercise, cardio-kickboxing, or any of the other instructor lead gym exercise courses. --67.112.121.72 (talk) 06:16, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

the wiki page looks like an advertisement, should this be deleted? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.152.123.110 (talk) 07:04, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Links aren't sources, article reads like an ad, except that ads are more compelling.

To sum it up: "Article" is shit. In longer form: Please, someone, mark this as advertisement. I actually came here to learn about "Zumba", and what my friends were busy with. And instead I get the kind of crap you feed employees (tripe below that which is fed to customers). I am not in the mood for a revert war, "entrepreneurs", so, please pay someone to write you some richer wikispam, or a least say what I said more kindly.--68.53.75.242 (talk) 08:12, 31 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Yeah, just wondering? How can almost anything that involves moving oneself's legs or arms be called dance? IMO, only ridiculous. 82.141.118.38 (talk) 09:56, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

LOL, how about you try it first, before you slam it as not being exercise? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.136.32.98 (talk) 04:09, 17 March 2011 (UTC)


 * You got it wrong. It sure is exercise, but I would not call it dance. By your logic, workout with weights should probably be called also dance... 82.141.67.208 (talk) 05:21, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Zumba is extraordinarily popular, so it deserves an article. This article has a bit of an advertising vibe though, and I deleted an external reference that really WAS advertising. As someone with a little experience in Latin and international dance, and having just attended my first few meetings of Zumba class, I think it would be great to add more detailed comparison/contrast with dance, and any info on exercise value. I don't have enough data points myself yet to attempt this. Anaphalis (talk) 23:12, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Origins of name
The discussion has been only about the use of the word in the context of excercise, giving the impression that it was invented by Beto Perez: I suggest further background details are needed.

"Zumba" was a dance, popular in the early 1960s, which I imagine originated in Portugal. 'Zumba' records were released starting in 1962, by, for example,
 * António Mourão (Portugal) (title "Zumba, Zumbale" composer C. Catellanos)
 * Tonicha (Portugal) ("Zumba Na Caneca" composers J. Liborio-Pop, Thilo Krasmann)
 * Conjunto Tipico Soldados Da Paz (Portugal) ("Zumba No Caneco" composer Artur Santos)
 * Conjunto Típico Fernando Ferraz (Portugal) ("Zumba Zumba" composer José Pacheco)
 * Dorita Y Pepe (Britain) ("Zumba-que-Zumba" composers Dorothy Sensier, Peter Sensier, and "Zamba Para No Morir" composers Norberto Jorge Ambros, Hector Alfredo Rosales, Hamlet Lima Quintana)
 * Francis Bay (USA) ("Zumba")
 * Otto Rhinot (France) ("El Negro Zumba"), and even
 * Radmila Karaklajić (Czechoslovakia) ("Anđelina, Zumba, Zumba (Angelina, Zoomba, Zoomba)" composers L. Prima, J. Lorbek, R. Karaklajić), probably adapted from a title by Louis Prima

Julesomega (talk) 09:20, 4 June 2016 (UTC)