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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

Barraza is onstage with a mariachi accompanying his banda.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

“This is very Pancho Barraza-style, especially with the venado shirt. I looked up old videos of him performing on YouTube. I do that a lot with these older banda looks,” Vallejo says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

Pivoting away from her usual banda influences, “Flores En Mi Alma” instead channels elements of cumbia, reggae and R&B into the sounds of contemporary música Mexicana.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025

“On the table in Mess banda, please God, thank you, sah,” replied Ali Suleiman humbly, as one who prays that his grievous trespasses may be forgotten.

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

Together, these factors have made Banda increasingly vulnerable to extreme heat.

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

In the provincial capital Banda Aceh, student groups and civil society organisations have descended on the local parliament to demand greater mobilisation of national resources.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

“The Banda Sea sunwings are beautiful as well. We can work out the particulars later.”

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull