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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.
Museo Parque de Bombas [3] (Parque de Bombas Museum) is a museum located inside the historic Parque de Bombas in the Ponce Historic Zone in Ponce, Puerto Rico. This museum is located at the Plaza Las Delicias town square, directly behind the Ponce Cathedral. It is housed in a building that once housed the city's main (and, initially, its only ...
The Parque de Bombas (English: firehouse [a]) is a historic former fire station in Ponce, Puerto Rico. It is one of Puerto Rico's most notable buildings, with some considering it "by far the most easily recognized landmark in the Island." [1] The Parque de Bombas is located at the Plaza Las Delicias town square, directly behind Ponce Cathedral ...
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.
Margarita "Tata" Cepeda (born 1945) is a Puerto Rican dancer, singer, teacher, and cultural icon known for her lifelong dedication to preserving and promoting the traditional Afro-Puerto Rican music and dance forms of bomba and plena. Affectionately nicknamed "La Mariposa de la Bomba" (The Butterfly of Bomba), Cepeda is celebrated for her ...
The Parque de Bombas Maximiliano Merced, at 42 Muñoz Rivera Street in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico was built in 1955. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. [1] [2] It has also been known as Parque Maximiliano Merced and as Antiguo Parque de Bombas de Aguas Buenas. [3]
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.
Iris Belia Chacón Tapia (born March 7, 1950) is a Puerto Rican dancer, singer, actress, and entertainer. [1]Known as "La Bomba de Puerto Rico" and "La Vedette de América," Chacón was a prominent figure in Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Japan during the 1970s and early 1980s.