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• banda
  banda

  noun

  a style of Mexican dance music featuring brass instruments and having a heavy beat.
• Banda
  Banda

  noun

  Hastings Kamuzu 1906–97, Malawi physician, political leader, and public official: 1st president of Malawi 1966–94.

banda

¹ American  

[bahn-duh] / ˈbɑn də /

noun

1. a style of Mexican dance music featuring brass instruments and having a heavy beat.

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Banda ² American  

[ban-duh] / ˈbæn də /

noun

1. Hastings Kamuzu 1906–97, Malawi physician, political leader, and public official: 1st president of Malawi 1966–94.

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Banda British  

/ ˈbændə /

noun

1. Hastings Kamuzu (kæˈmuːzuː). 1906–97, Malawi statesman. As first prime minister of Nyasaland (from 1963), he led his country to independence (1964) as Malawi: president (1966–94)

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Etymology

Origin of banda

First recorded in 1990–95; from Mexican Spanish: literally, band ¹ (in the sense of “group of musicians”)

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People were swarming vendors from eateries all around Koreatown, dance circles formed around speakers blasting banda music, and “oohs” and “ahhs” at every missed shot were in perfect sync.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

“If my mom pulled up to school to drop me off playing Spanish hits from the ‘80s or banda, I was like, ‘Can you turn it down please?’

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026

Chuy Lizarraga and José Angel Ledezma Quintero—popularly known as El Coyote—boast a combined 10 million monthly listeners on Spotify, but their latest venture isn’t named after a heartbreak ballad or a rural banda anthem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

These videos are balm and inspiration for our dark times and they’re even better with a soundtrack — I’ve seen people remix them with jaunty Mexican banda classics such as “La Chona” or “El Sinaloense.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025

“And write ‘God Bless Our Home’ on the banda wall,” he added, as a happy after-thought. 

From Cupid in Africa by P. C. Wren

Ora Banda generated A$121 million of operating cash flow and A$36 million of free cash flow in the quarter after investing in its projects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Research by Banda University of Agriculture and Technology found that nearly one-sixth of the district's dense forest cover disappeared between 1991 and 2022, largely due to mining and agricultural expansion.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

It notes peers including Ora Banda Mining and Bellevue Gold are trading at large premiums to Pantoro’s A$1.5 billion market value.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

Though he has yet to release an album, Eddyknew the audience would sing along to melodic corrido covers of Banda MS’ “A Lo Mejor” and Alejandro Sanz’s “Corazón Partío.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026

In 1994, three years before Uncle John’s death, President Banda finally retired after losing the first elections he’d allowed to happen.

From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba