Last week while music publishers were haggling over Cuban copyrights ... He went into Cuba’s interior and studied the primitive rumba dance, a series of writhings and twistings too lewd for ...

A symbol of marginal Cuban society, the practice developed in poor neighbourhoods of cities, shanty towns and rural areas spreading from west to east of the country. Rumba in Cuba, with its chants, ...

Neither in steps nor in body motions does the Brazilian samba bear any relation to the Cuban rumba or the fast-fading ... improvise fancy variations. The Music. Even tone-deaf people can identify ...

For over 40 years, Senegalese cultural icon Youssou Ndour has been thrilling audiences around the world with an eclectic mix of Cuban rumba, hip hop, jazz, soul and music of the West African griot ...

It's music meant for dancing in seedy nightclubs ... reinvented the tropical formats that they grew up with: from Cuban guaracha, rumba, and son montuno to Puerto Rican plena and bomba.

The show starts with a performance of the more traditional Afro-Cuban music and dance styles associated with Santeria, and ends with a high-energy rumba that gets foreigners and Cubans alike up ...

The renowned musician, who died in Madrid, was 66 years old and was a victim of prostate cancer. During the last months he ...

A passionate Kenyan rhumba music fan in the United States ... The book traces the journey of rumba from its roots in Congo and Angola to the Cuban slave plantations where African slaves fused ...