La Papaya Dada is the most listened to radioactive cumbia band from Ecuador on spotify.
This year 2024 the group celebrates its 17th anniversary, during which time it has evolved from a jazz band that plays Ecuadorian dance music in the Quito underground to a band that plays an average of 80 massive shows a year and leads the radio and social media charts.
Chicha is the name given to cumbia in Ecuador and it is the subgenre of papaya that permeates this sound in his own compositions. His latest hit, Amapola, won 3 national REM awards and has over 20 million plays on all platforms.