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Peru dance couple dancing waltz vald with typical clothes on white background,The melody is played on traditional Spanish guitar accompanied by the cajon, a wooden box percussion instrument played with the hands. Afro-Peruvian singers have dominated this genre of music. The most famous exponent of the Peruvian Waltz is Lucha Reyes, who took the style to the rest of Latin America in the 1950s, and made it a source of national pride. Her manic and tragic life mirrored the themes of heartbreak in her songs.