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  2. Cuban rumba - Wikipedia

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    Although rumba is played predominantly in binary meter (duple pulse: 2 4, 4 4), triple meter (triple pulse: 9 8, 3 4) is also present. In most rumba styles, such as yambú and guaguancó, duple pulse is primary and triple-pulse is secondary. [18] In contrast, in the rural style columbia, triple pulse is the primary structure and duple pulse is ...

  3. Gregorio Hernández Ríos - Wikipedia

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    Gregorio Hernández Ríos (17 November 1936 – 8 January 2012), known as El Goyo, was a Cuban rumba singer, dancer and percussionist. [1] A founding member of the Conjunto Folklórico Nacional, he was also the leader of a Santería music ensemble, Grupo Oba-Ilú.

  4. Descarga - Wikipedia

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    Volume II kicks off with "Descarga caliente", a 17-minute montuno jam, [nb 1] while side B features a rumba, a chachachá and a Santería ritual performance. Volume III (1958, red cover) was directed by tresero Niño Rivera and it comprises three montuno tracks combined with swing, guajira and chachachá, plus a guaguancó-comparsa. [5]

  5. Rumba - Wikipedia

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    Throughout Latin America, "rumba" acquired different connotations, mostly referring to Cubanized, danceable, local styles, such as Colombian rumba criolla (creole rumba). At the same time, "rumba" began to be used a catch-all term for Afro-Cuban music in most African countries, later giving rise to re-Africanized Cuban-based styles such as ...

  6. Conga - Wikipedia

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    Beginning in the late 1960s, band conga players began incorporating elements from folkloric rhythms, especially rumba. Changuito and Raúl "el Yulo" Cárdenas of Los Van Van pioneered this approach of the songo era. This relationship between the drums is derived from the style known as rumba. The feeling of the high drum part is like the quinto ...

  7. Rumba (restaurant) - Wikipedia

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    Rumba is a bar and restaurant in Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington. Opened by owner Travis Rosenthal in 2012, Rumba was named one of the best new bars by Details magazine and has been recognized by Tales of the Cocktail .

  8. Celia Cruz - Wikipedia

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    Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso was born on 21 October 1925, at 47 Serrano Street in the Santos Suárez neighborhood of Havana, Cuba. [10] [3] [11] Her father, Simón Cruz, was a railway stoker, and her mother, Catalina Alfonso Ramos, a housewife of Haitian descent who took care of an extended family. [3]

  9. Cuban Overture - Wikipedia

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    Cuban Overture is a symphonic overture or tone poem for orchestra composed by American composer George Gershwin.Originally titled Rumba (named for the Cuban rumba musical genre), it was a result of a two-week holiday which Gershwin took in Havana, Cuba in February 1932.