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Pedrito Martinez is a Cuban percussionist, drummer, singer, dancer, bandleader, songwriter, composer, and educator. He was born and raised in Havana, Cuba. He is a Cuban Conguero performing classic Cuban Rumbas, Afro-Cuban folkloric and religious music. He is a Santería priest. He came to the United States of America from Havana in 1998.
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Yoruba Andabo is a Cuban rumba ensemble founded in 1981 by conga drummer Pancho Quinto. [1] It evolved from an amateur group known as Guaguancó Marítimo Portuario, established in 1961 in the docks of Havana.
Rumba has included in Details magazine's list of the best new bars in the U.S. [22] Leonardo David Raymundo included the business in Eater Seattle 's 2017 list of ten "first-class" Caribbean restaurants in the city. [2] Writers for the website also included Rumba in a 2023 list of twenty "essential" Capitol Hill restaurants. [7]
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In the context of rumba, the term guagua is more common, as in guaguancó, or palitos, which refers to the sticks. Nonetheless, these have been replaced by the caja china or the more durable jam block, made of plastic. [1] The guagua is also used in yuka, one of the oldest genres of Afro-Cuban percussion. [4]
Yuka is a secular Afro-Cuban musical tradition which involves drumming, singing and dancing. It was developed in western Cuba by Kongo slaves during colonial times. Yuka predates other Afro-Cuban genres of dance music like rumba and has survived in Kongo communities of Pinar del Río, specifically in El Guayabo and Barbacoa, San Luis. [1]
Arsenio Rodríguez (born Ignacio Arsenio Travieso Scull; August 31, 1911 – December 30, 1970) [2] [3] was a Cuban musician, composer and bandleader. He played the tres, as well as the tumbadora, and he specialized in son, rumba and other Afro-Cuban music styles.