On Sound Study, Xandão will follow unexpected resonances, feedback, and musical migration around the world. Tune in for situated listening, original field recordings, and occasional interviews with guest DJs, artists, and scholars.

Born in Brooklyn, NY to immigrant parents from Apatzingan, Michoacan and Chinantla, Puebla, Chucho Ponce grew up surrounded by rap, cumbia sonidera, and baladas. In high school, he produced hip-hop beats in high school before using his beat-making knowledge to produce cumbia sonidera. At age 19, he decided to return to his father’s village to follow his cumbia sonidera dreams with his family and childhood friends as Chucho Ponce Los Daddys de Chinantla. Before releasing any albums, sonideros began playing the group’s music, and “Cumbia Primero de Mayo,” became their first underground hit. The first album Bienvenidos a Chinantla (2007) plays tribute to Chucho’s roots. Since then, Chucho Ponce Los Daddys continues to innovate new styles and rhythms that influence other sonidero groups. From the streets of Williamsburg, Bushwick, and Bed-Stuy to the village of Chinantla, Puebla (population 3000), Chucho Ponce Los Daddys personal background, experiences and return migration shapes their unique, cosmopolitan sound.