Try "La Rumba Me Llamo Yo," an affirmation of Cuba's deepest rumba traditions that somersaults across eras, from deep traditional guaguancó to hard-vamping rumba to meter-shifting horn arrangements — all of which eventually become a springboard for her exultant scat-singing.
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The Havana Club Rumba Sessions is a full album of remixes based on Cuban rumba samples, a corner of Latin American music that Peterson has long championed on his radio shows.
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I thought our rumba was great for Ryan last Monday.
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This week is Era Week and we have the rumba.
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On Tuesday, Latin Night will see them tackle the rumba.
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Mr. Díaz's Rumba Ensemble opens the festivities at 11 a.m.
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We passed the joyous scrum of a rumba street festival.
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My original submission included RUM BABA / RUMBA and MEMENTOS / MENTOS.
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"Yeah, this is pretty much rumba 101," Mr. Whiteside said.
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I'm using things that are inside of Rumba language, for sure.
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Vintage Caribbean styles like bolero and rumba get 21st-century twists.
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As everyone settled into the Heredia's outdoor Pacho Alonso space and caught early sets by local rumba group Rumba Ache and the UK-based Latin-dance king Quantic, no one really knew how the weekend would go.
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Mobutuism was supported by Franco Luambo, one of the original rumba stars.
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In terms of contemporary Cuban music, are traditional Rumba styles still central?
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Havana Club Rumba Sessions is released March 11th (Digital) / April 1st (Vinyl).
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Unfortunately, Morris' red-hot rumba wasn't enough to keep her in the competition.
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Among the top performers is Bakolo Music International, the oldest Congolese rumba band.
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The textbook also suggests that the tango, rumba and salsa are Mexican dances.
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It is the birthplace of rumba lingala, dance music that has spread beyond Africa.
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The music of Cuba is largely rumba, but it breaks down into different categories.
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Bargaro and Yessell introduced us around to many of their friends—also rumba musicians.
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Musicians initially disliked the word; they preferred more specific designations like rumba or bolero.
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I'll be dancing a rumba with Sasha and a tango with Sasha and Artem Chigvintsev!
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Even in wartime, the music plays—and who can listen to rumba without a beer?
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While she tended a soaring Hollywood career, he toured the country with his rumba band.
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One of the songs, "Elegua," appears to be a collaboration with Cuban rumba group Obbatuké.
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A personal favorite is her exploration of rumba, a Cuban style of dance and party.
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Then the song plunges into gear, toggling between a frenetic rumba pulse and brisk, boppish swing.
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The contestant teases his week four rumba routine with Peta Murgatroyd in a vlog for People.
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At the piano, he breaks down Afro-Cuban music into structures: rumba, guajira, son montuno, mambo.
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The loveliest touches in the fill — RUBY DEE, CRAZY HORSE, SHREK and RUMBA — are Erik's handiwork.
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The band thrived on developing and playing soukous, a modern variation of the Congolese rumba music.
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It will include rumba, guaguancó, bomba and African percussion, fused with other instruments from around the world.
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She and Chmerkovskiy received a perfect score for their Rumba to TLC's "Waterfalls" on Monday night's episode.
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BRONX "La Rumba Me Llama," (2015) directed by Oliver Hill as part of the Havana Film Festival.
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It was my first foray into rumba for the club scene, the pathless remix is particularly interesting!
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Finnish artist Mika Vainio of experimental electronic music duo Pan Sonic has died, Finnish outlet Rumba reported.
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Acknowledging the incident the following day, Havana Rumba wrote on Facebook that they "deeply" regretted the entire situation.
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The enormous, and famous, pre-revolutionary 1937 work "La Rumba" by Antonio Sánchez Araujo is on display here.
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For her "Most Memorable Year" rumba, she picked 2017, because of the birth of her third child, Phoenix Robert.
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A giant rainbow flag unraveled as a rumba band sauntered along and swigged rum, ready to provide a rhythm.
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His 1989 album with Fort Apache, "Rumba Para Monk," infused the compositions of Thelonious Monk with Afro-Cuban flavor.
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The Kentucky Senator was eating dinner with his wife at Havana Rumba in Louisville, when 4 men confronted Mitch.
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Known in the Democratic Republic of Congo as the King of Rumba Rock, Wemba's career began in the late 1960s.
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Santiago-based Obbatuké plays sparse, beautiful rumba and son—two pillars of traditional Afro-Cuban music—straight from the soul.
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A cameo by the traditionalist Puerto Rican rumba singer Totin (Arará) Agosto adds a folkloric seal of approval across generations.
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He preens, she melts, and when they make music together, they rumba like the stars of a Copacabana floor show.
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But a loose-muscle swing softens the metric modes, and the result is sometimes like a new kind of rumba.
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Phil's numbers, including one called "Rockaway Rumba," really pop, with choreography by Denis Jones bringing them to full-stage life.
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At Havana Rumba, a Cuban restaurant, Joel Toste, an owner, dismissed talk of Castro with a wave of his hand.
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"They're teaching us to swing dance and then we're also looking to do a little rumba, some hip hop," he said.
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"They're teaching us to swing dance and then we're also looking to do a little rumba, some hip hop," he says.
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Both admitted after their dance that they knew little about rumba except what they gleaned from a quick perusal of YouTube.
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Though Congo is famous for producing talented musicians (and for its breezy rumba beats), earning a living in the industry is tough.
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It was like a Rumba had gone rogue on my lumbar and wouldn't stop sucking until I surrendered my ability to walk.
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Scott later revealed that their rumba tune "Turn the Lights Down Low" by MAX will also feature in his and Phan's upcoming wedding.
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Sam and Brandon Flynn were out at Thorpe Park in London, where they hopped on this water raft ride called the Rumba Rapids.
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I just wanted to invite some of my favourite producers and artists from around the world to attempt a re-imagining of rumba.
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Bargaro and Yessel learned their craft while growing up in Santiago, where the three main rumba styles—Guaguanco, Columbia, and Yambu—were born.
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Rumba is the music Mr. Martinez grew up on, and how he learned to play bata, a drum frequently used in Santeria ceremonies.
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The title song, written by Mr. Morrison, is a minor-key blues with a rumba undercurrent, and he sings it with improvisatory aplomb.
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Dubbed the Rumba boot, the duchess's go-to footwear has a slender profile, a tapered heel, and the brand's signature water-resistant finish.
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She dances to the fuzzy rumba beats that blast out of almost every bar; her noisy thoroughfares are full of hopeful, chattering people.
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It is those in-store adverts in Sainsbury's that feature people of all ages jumping about next to some salad and words like RUMBA!
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It was also a period when Congo's Cuban-influenced rumba ruled the airwaves across an African continent in the midst of an existential transformation.
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If you cannot make it to the Caribbean this winter, there is always the Rumba Inspired Island Cuisine and Rum Bar in Hampton Bays.
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After performing their rumba, the judges awarded Lochte and Burke with a 28/40, which was one of the lowest scores of the night.
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Singing in his supple, piquant tenor, he transmitted the propulsive hybrid originally known as Congolese rumba (later, soukous) far beyond the boundaries of Africa.
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They are not blind to the problems in their country but there is no time to be down because … there's a rumba street festival!
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When Inaba, 51, sat in on rehearsals to help Brown with her rumba do-over, she critiqued the star's hip movements throughout the routine.
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Virtue and Moir, who received 5.26 for the element, said they were eager to watch videos to determine how they could maximize their rumba points.
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Scott Disick's considering a spot on the next season of "Dancing with the Stars" but his cha-cha and rumba don't come cheap ... $500k minimum.
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Chmerkovisky and Morris earned the first perfect score of the season for their rumba soundtracked by TLC's "Waterfalls," though their joy would be short-lived.
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With waterfront restaurants like CowFish and Rumba that you can pull a boat up to, Hamptons Bay is hopping, Mr. Bourgard of Douglas Elliman said.
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And Mr. Terry, on saxophone, treats the tousled rhythmic logic of Cuban rumba as his foundation, moving in arcs and dashes and sweeps of color.
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"You are hands-down the best male dancer we have ever had on this show," judge Julianne Hough told Hinchcliffe after his rumba on Latin Week.
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So, when I started thinking about what I wanted to do as a solo, the two things I listened to nonstop were Cuban Rumba and dancehall.
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Now, the whole purpose of this project is to get people more clued up on what rumba is all about, and what it means for Cuba.
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Among her biggest hits were the rumba "Babalu" and the ballads "Não Tenho Você" ("I Don't Have You") and "Vá, mas Volte" ("Leave, but Come Back").
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Farruko - "6am (Pablito Mix Remix)"Happy Colors - "Que Buena Es La Rumba"Happy Colors - "Earthquake vs Moshpit"Joey Pastrana - "Orquestra Pastranan (JSTJR Remix)"KickRaux & Ras Kwame ft.
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Su Salón México fue una película distinta, un melodrama musical de cine negro ambientado en un cabaret de mal gusto al ritmo casi continuo de la rumba.
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If I wanted to use the bathroom or shower, I had to go to the main house and risk another hour or two of my host's rumba.
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This week we have a tango on Monday and a rumba on Tuesday, and they're more intense and staccato dances, so I've had to channel another side.
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Soon thereafter he joined a group of Cuban musicians who held rumba parties on Sunday nights in Union City, which is where he met his wife, Maria.
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Her dance partner, Slavi Baylov, 41, greeted her with flowers and led her onto the dance floor for a jaunty rumba followed by an elegant fox trot.
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The result is an album that couples the liquid pull of Cuban rumba with gently romantic melodies — and some subtly magnetic electric bass playing from Alvaro Benavides.
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The lead single from the group's self-titled debut is "Calle Luz," a quick, pattering original that reshapes a rumba rhythm around its jagged, four-horn arrangement.
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For his return to the reality dancing competition series, Chmerkovskiy, 37, choreographed a rumba for the duo to the tunes of TLC's "Waterfalls" — and it definitely didn't disappoint.
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It's basically a bunch of Rumba-like robots flying around picking up boxes and bringing them to workers who place your items into a box to be shipped.
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For her final performance on the show, McKeon, 52, and her pro partner Val Chmerkovskiy performed a rumba for "Most Memorable Year" night in honor of her family.
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Her mother considered rumba and flamenco too indecorous and pushed Eva instead to take piano lessons, which held the prospect of employment as a performer or a teacher.
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They were part of a group of older Asian-Americans dancing the rumba in a room lit like a nightclub in suburban San Gabriel Valley, near Los Angeles.
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GANGNEUNG, South Korea (Reuters) - Judging of the ice dance in the team event at the Pyeongchang Olympics has been harsh, especially for the mandatory rumba, competitors said on Sunday.
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The dead alpinists, the people offering food on the corners, the bands coaxing us all to come dance to their music, my host and his awful rumba, and me.
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What transpired next was a Bachelor-themed routine in which a shirtless (obvs) Viall and dance partner Peta Murgatroyd, playing the part of a Bachelorette contestant, performed the rumba.
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And I was also studying rumba and coming up with what I wanted to do with ÌFÉ and I knew I wanted to make the group a musical expression.
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The music, to his ear, was reminiscent of Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Cuban rumba, Gustav Holst's "The Planets," and the visual rhythms of strange mathematical objects called Penrose tiles.
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Judge Carrie Ann Inaba will be working with Bachelorette Hannah Brown and Alan Bersten as they dance the rumba to "Dancing with a Stranger" by Sam Smith and Normani.
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Papa Wemba, a singer and musician known around the world as the king of Congolese rumba, died on Sunday after collapsing onstage during a concert in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
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We continued on to Carrer de la Cera, which is considered the birthplace of the Catalan rumba, and which has long been the center of the city's Romany population.
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Those who know rumba music, its urgent drumbeats and African roots, will recognize the voice as belonging to Rafael "El Niño" Navarro Pujada: the Frank Sinatra of the form.
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As the band, Margi and the Dapper Dots, started in on a rumba, "Sway," it was joined onstage by two dancers, whose highly coordinated moves soon caught people's eyes.
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"All I yearned for after our Rumba tonight was Linda's kiss and her words, 'I Love You,'" the Property Brothers star wrote on an Instagram of the couple cuddling up.
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He attended Saturday-night parties at which young Malians, dressed to the nines, danced the twist, the rumba and the merengue to the Beatles, James Brown and Afro-Caribbean music.
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Back in 2012, Inaba was so fired up after a rumba performance from Gilles Marini and Peta Murgatroyd that she once again missed her seat and took a dramatic tumble.
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On Monday's episode of the reality dance competition series, the Pretty Little Liars star performed her final dance — a Little Mermaid-themed rumba — with partner Gleb Savchenko for DWTS' Disney Night.
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Both are also among pop's most savvy beat-seekers, finding and combining rhythms old and new — merengue, rumba, cumbia, samba, paseo, rock, disco, hip-house, reggaeton — to keep fans dancing now.
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More recently, musicians seeking direct mentorship have been wise to seek out the Cuban folkloric percussionist, singer and poet Román Díaz, who runs the Midnight Rumba at Zinc Bar every Thursday.
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According to WLKY, McConnell, a Republican representing Kentucky, was dining at Havana Rumba in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, when a group of men approached the couple.
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Montreal's Pierre Kwenders (real name José Louis Modabi) is one of the central figures in the city's pan-African dance music scene, specializing in electro-rumba influenced by his Congolese roots.
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Reacting against the big bands of the latest titans of the rumba, such as François "Franco" Luambo, Zaiko swapped brass instruments for a snare drum and electric guitars, and upped the tempo.
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His music — a style originally called Congolese rumba, and in later years soukous, a word derived from the French secouer, "to shake" — melded traditional African and Caribbean rhythms with rock and soul.
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My inquiries proved unfruitful for days, until I ran into a couple of local rumba musicians—Bargaro and Yessel—chatting over beers at a local music hall during a May Day celebration.
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It was through these late nights, talking and listening to wayward travelers by the warmth of the fire, that he was introduced to international music styles, from Colombian salsa to African rumba.
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Last year, Chipaumire presented a characteristically raw and nervy work reflecting on her development in her native Zimbabwe in the 1970s, '80s and '90s as represented by punk, pop and rumba music.
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But its guitar grooves are a Pan-African blend, drawing on the thumb-pianolike guitar picking of older Zimbabwean pop, on the lilting rumba of Congolese soukous and on hints of rock.
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Whereas in the West the country's name inspires pictures of child soldiers fighting bloody battles, in most of Africa it is associated with "rumba Lingala" (Lingala is the language of the Kinshasa street).
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The amplified score includes heavy thuds, drumbeats and — the moment when I laughed out loud — the rumba classic "Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me Again)," played by the strings of the Royal Opera House orchestra.
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"He's the most wonderful, most loving person who ever existed and that's why he's still alive," said Ms. Marcone, adding that she still dances with Mr. Binder, be it rumba, merengue or swing.
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Liverpool's Chief Executive Peter Moore said the club had raised "a number of concerns" with Qatar and sought further information about Rupchandra Rumba, a 24-year-old Nepali migrant worker who died suddenly.
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One of the early Cuban genres to gain widespread familiarity was the rumba, which evolved from dockworkers banging out rhythms on packing cases into interlocking percussive rhythms with vocals and an accompanying dance.
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Congolese rumba music legend Papa Wemba died after collapsing on stage in the Ivory Coast in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to the private morgue where his body was taken.
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With ÌFÉ, I would never say that I'm playing Rumba First of all, that music has its own sort of rules and structure, and the people that play that take it very, very seriously.
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In the early 1980s he moved to Paris, where he produced ballads in Lingala and pop versions of the rumba, more accessible to a Western audience that was increasingly eager for exotic "World" music.
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"This is the first year that I'm not fighting to get back what was taken away from me," says Arlen, who spent her 23rd birthday dancing a rumba with Valentin Chmerkovskiy on the Sept.
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The Rumba boot is currently in stock at Nordstrom — a shocker, actually, considering the speed at which a Kate-loved item tends to sells out — but they're not on sale and go for $695.
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Sasha and I are dancing a rumba, which I got pretty easily on the first day, but judge Carrie Ann Inaba chose a jive for our second dance and that one has been way harder.
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The singer — who is paired with Val Chmerkovskiy — is performing a rumba to the song "Impossible," which is the first song Fifth Harmony performed after they were formed on season 2 of The X Factor.
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As part of Lincoln Center's summer social-dance series, two American Ballet Theater talents, the soloist Cassandra Trenary and the principal James Whiteside, appear at Lincoln Center's annual Midsummer Night Swing to dance a rumba.
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In between practicing her rumba routine with pro partner Val Chmerkovskiy, Sailor, 21, made sure to document all their fun and excitement, as well as some tough moments, through a series of photos and videos.
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The album features a tight and sometimes abrasive palette of sounds ranging from Miami bass to gritty techno, all the while nodding to Cuba's long love affair with percussive styles ranging from rumba to guaguancó .
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The rumba, which earned a score of 24 out of 30, was Cherkovskiy and Lachey's first number together since the pro took last week off due to "personal issues," sparking rumors the partners weren't getting along.
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It's an aggressive band, with the seething chords of Mr. Rolie's Hammond organ, Mr. Schon's hard-rock guitar tone and the band's precise stereo salvos of percussion: rumba, son, funk, carnival beats and conga-laced blues.
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Mr. Hersh said that he was enthusiastic about guests concluding their time at Rumba with the hot, dessert-like cocktails: "You'll be nice and warm before your island vacation's over and you're walking back into the cold."
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Located in one of Santiago's historic artist neighborhoods—per my hosts, a hotbed of rumba drummers and salsa dancers—there wasn't much to Yessel's state-owned home, where he said he'd been living for only a month.
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L'Orchestre Afrisa International reunited Congolese musicians who forged the suavely irresistible syncopations of soukous — an African reclamation of the rumba topped by gleaming guitar lines — as the backup band for Tabu Ley Rochereau, who died in 2013.
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Eyewitness Casey Leek told the Louisville Courier-Journal that the situation began after a woman approached the table where the Senate majority leader and his wife, Secretary of Transportation Elanie Chao, were dining at Cuban restaurant Havana Rumba.
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African Rumba (Putumayo) Every so often the safest and most pan-touristic of the shifting cadre of "world" labels digs into its pockets and pulls out something gorgeous that goes down as easy as its target market supposedly insists.
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Ms. Gad likened Mr. Ng's work to a 2015 video by the Beijing-based multimedia artist Cao Fei, "Rumba II: Nomad," in which domestic vacuum-cleaning robots are deployed in an urban area that has been reduced to rubble.
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The West African roots of rumba come through in various ways here; amid all the rhythmic and harmonic complexity, you might even hear echoes of Fela Kuti's Africa '70 band in the sound of the Rhodes, bass and drums.
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He took many to eat fish and cassava at Maluku on the Congo river, and encouraged some to meet Papa Wendo, the ancient father of the Congolese rumba, or to listen in on meetings of intellectuals who conversed in English.
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This one documents a pan-African phenomenon, as over a span of stylistically evolving decades, the rumba clave into which Cuban musicians converted Congolese rhythms proved ripe for reconversion from Dakar in the northwest to Luando seven thousand miles thataway.
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But she did, and she confronted her past bullies in a rumba where she and partner Derek literally shoved the taunts out of the way – and made way for Mota to proclaim "I love who I am" to thunderous applause.
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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - LGBT+ refugees in Kenya - some dressed in sequined ball gowns and slinky black evening dresses - cast aside their troubles on Thursday to eat lunch, dance to Congolese rumba and celebrate their second International LGBTQI Refugee Day.
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Designed as a seaside bungalow, with ceiling fans, tropical décor and a wide-angle view of Peconic Bay, Rumba offers 54 rums, including a house-infused banana vanilla rum that complements the barbecue ribs and jerk chicken tacos on the menu.
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A dance party with splashes of conga, rumba, mambo and cha-cha, "Club Havana" is the Technicolor version of Cuba — flouncy skirts in rainbow hues, swiveling hips and sly smiles that beckon audiences to visit, which might be possible soon.
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Sounds spill out of every unoccupied stretch of beaten-up sidewalk, and the city's state-owned, citizen-operated music halls play host to talented locals performing son, rumba, bata, and conga-led bembe music nearly every night of the week.
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There's the music: traditional drumming rhythms like sabar that I can spend hours listening to and never really understand, and more modern sounds like mbalax, a one-of-a-kind mash-up of old school rhythms, Congolese rumba and soul.
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For his final two dances of the competition, Owens, 43, first performed a Charleston with pro partner Cheryl Burke — they earned a 27/30 — before delivering a sexy rumba with season 1 Mirrorball Trophy winner Kelly Monaco for the show's Trio Night.
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Americans Maia and Alex Shibutani, the 2017 world bronze medalists, finished second behind Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir and said their score of 4.91 points for the rumba sequence, a figure integrated into their technical elements score, was lower than expected.
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It was fuelled by enthusiasm for the new Congolese rumba, a sound the first generation of stars had repurposed from the Cuban songs they discovered on a budget range of ten-inch, 78rpm records put out by a British label, "His Master's Voice".
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In fact, Kimjang has been included by UNESCO in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, which attempts to preserve country-specific cultural practices — Arabic coffee, Slovakian puppetry, Cuban Rumba, Portuguese cowbell manufacturing and Indian yoga are all on the list too.
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Although the Olympian has mastered his swimming pool game face, pro partner Cheryl Burke thought he needed some help with his sexy face for their 90s rumba, which was choreographed to the tunes of Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" for Eras week.
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Papa Wemba, the internationally renowned Congolese singer known as "the king of rumba rock" for his upbeat, vibrantly danceable numbers that fused African pop with a welter of world musics, died on Sunday after collapsing onstage early that morning while performing in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
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Like many of the Cuban musicians I met in Santiago, the pair made their living working state-approved occupations—in their case, giving drum lessons at a local Caribbean music hall on weekends—and giving rumba and salsa lessons to travelers on the side.
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If you can imagine one half of a dancing duo doing the waltz, and the other doing the rumba, and the two of them twisting around each other like friendly snakes, then you get an idea of what Greenbaum can do in a painting.
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FROM PEN: Ryan Seacrest is Already a Fixture in Kelly Ripa's House The announcement came as a total surprise to fans, who witnessed the gymnast earn a perfect score for each of her two dances of the night: jive (40/40) and the rumba (40/40).
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Todd Bird, his husband Casey Leek, and several of their friends were waiting for their table at the popular Cuban restaurant Havana Rumba Friday night when McConnell and his wife, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, walked in, put their name down, and headed to the bar.
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The first perfect score in a streak of perfect scores: Jennifer Grey and Derek Hough's instant rumba in season 11 These two got their first set of straight 10s in the show's eighth week, and continued to get nothing but for the rest of the show.
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A series of probing works followed through the 1980s and '90s: "Batá," with its eerie evocations of Yoruba rituals; "A la Par," a piano-percussion duo that moves from murmuring chromaticism to a coolly contained guaguancó rumba; and "Indígena," in which trumpet fanfares herald riotous explosions of orchestral color.
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Suffering from terminal neglect and the infertility of his wrath, the hate mailer wants your attention, and so the unkindest thing you can do is not to cut him down in a reply, but to deny him the rumble or rumba he's come looking for—never write back.
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The guaguancó "Compa Galletano," with Mr. Martinez singing hard against Mr. Blades, one of the great voices in Latin music of the last half century, is one of the record's strongest tracks, rearranging a favorite tune of drums-and-vocals rumba groups into complex, shifting-harmony, full-band style.
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But it also remains in many ways tied to another era, and electronic music is not part of the island's image, even as the genre's global popularity and lack of overhead is conducive to exchanges, such as a recent rumba-oriented remix project spearheaded by BBC tastemaker Gilles Peterson.
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Produced by British expats and a Cuban rapper, the festival is an encounter between Santiago's folkloric groups — playing rumba, son montuno, guaracha and other Afro-Cuban traditions — and electronic dance music, primarily from British rhythm explorers like Quantic (Will Holland, who's based in Colombia), Plaid and A Guy Called Gerald.
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Mixed entirely on wax, Peterson's latest mix for the Vinyl Factory celebrates the release of his recent Havana Club Rumba Sessions EP from earlier in the year—a record that reimagines sounds from the island with a slew of dance-focused producers like débruit, Max Graef, and Motor City Drum Ensemble.
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They've toured abroad to Spain and Russia, and Hansel's gone to the U.S. with his other bands that play a more commercial and therefore profitable style (a much-needed source of income from abroad when playing Cuban jazz or rumba standards at a Havana bar might net a player $5 for a night's work).
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Cao is 37, and the show acts as a chronological timeline of her career, leading visitors from the experimental work of her time at the Guangzhou Art Academy to her recent video, "Rumba II: Nomad," in which Roomba vacuum cleaners, unleashed at the site of demolished buildings, explore and absorb the urban sprawl like alien creatures.
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They explain the event's initial vision, which is to explore and present on stage, the space where Afro-Cuban music (a style native to Santiago de Cuba) and contemporary electronic music intersect—filling their bill with the likes of international talents like Quantic, Nicolas Jaar, and A Guy Called Gerald, as well Cuban acts like Wichy De Vedado and rumba band Okkubuté.
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Amid the recent amendments to the long-running US-Cuban travel embargo, MANANA is putting their focus on the oft-underlooked city of Santiago for their debut event, and will be showcasing a plethora of vibrant, unrecorded genres native to the city like the percussive rumba sub-genre, Guaguancó, Afro-Cuban hybrid, Son (a poetic of guitar music performed throughout the barrios of Santiago), as well as more modern electronic sounds of house, techno, and dubstep.
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