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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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banda Banda

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

Vallejo’s parents first started going in the early ’90s, when banda and corridos began echoing across L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

“He was a trombone player and played in a banda in my mom’s hometown in Jalisco.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

It’s a banda festival going on its second year and organized by Division 9 Gallery — a community arts space that hosts citywide Latino-focused cultural events.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025

“You look seedy, Greene,” observed the Major that same evening, as Bertram dragged himself across the black mud from his banda to the Bristol Bar—wondering if he would ever get there.

From Cupid in Africa by Wren, P. C.

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

Banda then hit Andy Pages with a pitch and gave up a single to Freeman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 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

Our district is the most fertile in all Malawi, often called the “breadbasket” of the country, and Banda understood what was required to work the soil.

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