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In 1977, Modesto Cepeda, son of Rafael, founded the Rafael Cepeda Atiles School of Bomba and Plena which is located at Calle Union #71, sector Playita de Villa Palmeras in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. [6] The school teaches the youth of Puerto Rico the fundamentals of the traditional dances. Cepeda's wife Caridad died on February 25, 1994.
The most well-known traditional players are the Cepeda Family who have been playing bomba for generations and the Ayala family, who are a family with a tradition of arts and crafts as well as bomba music. [22] Rafael Cepeda, the Cepeda family’s patriarch, is known for creating an ensemble in the 1940’s to perform Bomba on the radio.
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 ...
Rafael Cepeda (1910–1996), also known as "The Patriarch of Bomba and Plena", was the patriarch of the Cepeda family. The family is one of the most famous exponents of Puerto Rican folk music, with generations of musicians working to preserve the African heritage in Puerto Rican music.
Pedro "Perucho" Cepeda - baseball player, father of Orlando, considered one of the greatest players of his generation [9] Rafael Cepeda - folk musician and composer; patriarch of the Cepeda family; Afro–Puerto Rican folk music, especially bomba. [10] Related to Pedro and Orlando Cepeda; Nero Chen - professional boxer [11]
In the 1950s, the dance-band ensemble of Rafael Cortijo and Ismael Rivera performed several songs in they had labeled as "bombas"; although these bore some similarities to the sicá style of bomba, in their rhythms and horn arrangements they also borrowed noticeably from the Cuban dance music which had long been popular in the island. Giving ...
Mi Encuentro is the twenty-second studio album by Puerto Rican singer Yolandita Monge, released in 1997 and her last production for WEA-Latina.The album marked another radical change of sound for the singer, which included bomba and plena arrangements.
Rafael Cepeda (1910–1996), composer; a.k.a. "Patriarch of the Bomba and Plena" Iris Chacón (born 1950), singer and vedette Keshia Chanté (born 1988), R&B and pop singer-songwriter [ 264 ]