The closest thing to Zumba I had ever heard was Rumba, that slow, balmy, almost lazy musical genre of Latin roots. But while Rumba is a musical genre, Zumba is a group workout routine that involves ...

Zumba was born in Colombia in the 1990s, quite by accident. A fitness instructor forgot to bring his usual workout music to class, so he grabbed some Latin albums from his car, ditched the constraints ...