World Music

He is remembered as "The Voice", or "The man who even sings underwater". We took off the floor to get to dance with the father of the salsa, the Puerto Rican, Hector Lavoe, who performed El Cantante, a song composed by Ruben Blades who sings for "a life of laughter and sorrow, of bad moments and good things."

There is a song that just wraps the eardrum in silk, we talk about the Brazilian piece; Waters of March, written by the musician Antonio Carlos Jobim and performed with all the delicacy and coquetry on Earth by the native of Porto Alegre, Elis Regina.

Directly of the grandfather's phonograph, we delight and incidentally remember the blood that has gone to the afterlife, with the bolero Puente de Piedra by the quartet Trio Vegabajeño, although composed by the Spanish, Carmelo Larrea.

Danza la Barbacoa is a traditional Colombian dance that resorts to the genre called bambuco, born from the pre-Columbian indigenous rhythms of the Colombian Andes.

Bethe Bethe Kese Kese, is a song by the Pakistani; Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, who accompanied by the Italian musician; Gaudí, performed with the rhythm of dub, a song that surely transported to one another listener from the university to most pleasant places.

Yoruba Andabo is a rumba band originated from Havana, Cuba. The group is composed by Matias Geovany del Pino; director and singer. Juan Campos, Regla Monet, Ronald Gonzalez, Demian Dia and Jorge Luis Hernandez; singers. Orlando Lage, Julio Cesar Lemoine, Michael Herrera and Didiel Acosta; percussionists. Jennyselt Galata, Zulema Pedroso, Alberto Vidiaux and Pedro Lazaro Monteagudo; dancers. 

La Compañía has its origins in the docks of La Havana, in 1961, when a group of workers met at parties and art events. They created the Guaguancó Marítimo Portuario, set that, in 1985, began a professional career with the name Yoruba Andabo.

From that moment, it offered its art in various activities of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC for its acronym in Spanish), it worked with the record company EGREM, by initiative of the composer and singer: Pablo Milanés, and shared the stage with folk singer Merceditas Valdés.

Currently, the company integrates 16 artists, including singers, percussionists and dancers. The cast grows the different musical genres that make up the African roots of Cuban culture and those include the cycles Congo, Yoruba, Abakuá and the called rumba complex, with its traditional rhythms, especially the yambú, guaguancó and the columbia, but also include fusion elements with other musical genres, creating voices and contemporary sounds.

Yoruba Andabo