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Bomba Dance in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Bomba was developed in Puerto Rico during the early European colonial period. The first documentation of bomba dates back to 1797: botanist André Pierre Ledru described his impressions of local inhabitants dancing and singing popular bombas in Voyage aux îles de Ténériffe, la Trinité, Saint-Thomas, Sainte-Croix et Porto Ricco.
The Festival de Bomba y Plena de San Antón (English: San Anton's Bomba and Plena Festival), is an annual celebration held in Ponce, Puerto Rico, as an extravaganza celebration of Bomba and Plena music genres and the traditions of Ponce's barrio San Antón. The celebration lasts 10 days and it ends on a Sunday.
Cepeda was born in 1945 in Cataño, Puerto Rico, into a family deeply embedded in the cultural world of bomba y plena. Her grandparents, Doña Caridad Brenes Caballero and Rafael Cepeda Atiles, were renowned bomba practitioners, known as "Los Patriarcas de la Bomba y la Plena." Raised by her grandparents from the age of three months, Cepeda was ...
The plena genre originated in Barrio San Antón, Ponce, Puerto Rico, [3] [4] around 1900. [5] It was influenced by the bomba style of music. [citation needed] Originally, sung texts were not associated with the plena, which was rendered by guitar, accordion and pandero, but eventually, in 1907, [citation needed] singing was added.
Ashley Colón, nicknamed La Chica Bomba (born October 27, 1975, in Puerto Rico), is a Puerto Rican merengue singer. [1] Mostly influenced by popular Puerto Rican singer and actress Iris Chacón, Ashley began her successful career as a member of tropical band Las Chicas del Clan (The Girls of the Clan).
"La Bomba" is one of Martin's most commercially successful songs in his career. [43] It was a top-five hit in Central American countries, including Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. [ 44 ] [ 45 ] The song debuted at number 32 on the US Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart on July 11, 1998, becoming Martin's 16th entry.
The Museo de la Música Puertorriqueña (English: Museum of Puerto Rican Music) is a museum in Ponce, Puerto Rico, that showcases the development of Puerto Rican music, with displays of Taíno, Spanish, and African musical instruments that were played in the romantic danza genre, the favorite music of 19th-century Puerto Rican high society, as well as the more African-inspired bomba and plena ...
"Yo Soy Boricua, Pa' Que Tu Lo sepas!" (English: I am Puerto Rican, so that you know!) is a song composed in 1995 by Joel Bosch or (Bosh) a.k.a. Taino. [1] [2] The song was born out of a moment of frustration and pride, as Taino overheard an engineer insulting Puerto Ricans in English during a recording session. [3]