Los Destellos are a band of musicians from Peru. They combined the sounds of surf rock, psychedelic music with cumbia to be part of a unique sound characterizing a Peruvian cumbia strain which came to be known as chicha because of its association with working class listeners who enjoy a native brew of the same name. Los Destellos incorporated lilting Andean slum melodies into rock 'n' roll music for their self-titled debut, but the addition of a timbalero is what made them a true innovation. Timbales were used to keep time in many South American musical styles, but Enrique Delgado used them to incorporate cumbia into the standard Beat ensemble, making him the fathering pioneer of cumbia Peruana. He would expound on this idea in the years that followed by taking an ever larger ensemble of folk players in a more psychedelic direction. In this way, Los Destellos also anticipated Chicha, their seventh LP Constelación being a proto-standard of the genre. In 1975, Delgado's sister, Edith, also joined the band, which by that point had grown to include a sprawling number of musicians and a sizable hype crew. Enrique continued leading the group until his untimely death in 1996 from medical malpractice. Edith continues touring today with the current incarnation of Los Destellos.
Under the direction of lead guitarist Enrique Delgado, Los Destellos (the sparkles, like a star) are pretty much known as the founders of Cumbia Peruana circa 1966. Now I am pretty sceptical about using the word chicha to define their genre of music. I feel that chicha is more associated with 70’s and 80’s transient Andean cumbia, a music that is probably rooted more in Amerindian sounds, beliefs and the harshness of the Amerindian experience (hardship, displacement, lament). Whether they influenced the chicha movement later on or became part of it by default, I’m not 100% sure. However, Los Destellos appear to be more part of the Lima Mestizo culture (mixture of Indian/Spanish blood). And can be reflected in the way which their sounds fuse Latin boogaloo, psychedelic rock, soul, Colombian cumbia, tropical and indigenous music in a whole host of ways.
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