Alexander LaSalle, Manuela Arciniegas, Julia Gutierrez-Rivera, Marinieves Alba, Raquel Rivera, Fidel Tavarez, Luis Perez, Diana Quinones, Obanilu Allende, Veronica Valentin, Jonathan Troncoso, Maria Solana, Juan Manuel Usera, Jorge Vasquez, Roberto Cepeda Brenes, Gloria Lopez de Cepeda, Anthony Carrillo.
Influences
Felix Alduen, Yagüembé, Yenye y Ana Rosa Pizarro, Mariano LaSalle, and others.
Sounds Like
Drums meet Revolution, Puerto Rico meets Africa.
Alma Moyó wants to give a special thank you to Dennis Flores for such great videos!!! GRACIAS HERMANO!
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Live @ Queens Theater, Flushing Meadows Park. November 24, 2007
Alma Moyó performance at Nuyorican Poets Cafe at Loisaida, NYC
Alma Moyó performance at BomPlenazo 2006
BomPlenazo 2006 AfterParty
Alma Moyó is an Afro-Boricua musical group dedicated to the preservation of Puerto Rico's oldest living African musical and cultural tradition, la bomba. Founded in 2002 under the musical direction of Alex LaSalle from Moca, Puerto Rico, the groups 17 members are a talented mix of musicians, educators and historians dedicated to empowering people of the African Diaspora by sharing Borinquens potent legacy of Bomba music, the primarily Bantu/Kongo derived African music of Puerto Rico. Closely related to the music of gwoka from Guadaloupe, bele/ lewoz from Martinique, and the bomba from Ecuador, tumba francesa from Cuba, Haitis boumba, and many others.
Bringing together different generations of Puerto Rican and Caribbean musicians, Alma Moyó represents the next movement in pan-Caribbean musical expression. Dedicated primarily to preserving and promoting awareness of the vast diversity that exists within the Afro-Puerto Rican bomba tradition, Alma Moyó seeks to honor the multi-root origin of bomba by honoring the unique fusion of African and Afro-Caribbean elements that blend to create bomba on the island of Puerto Rico.
Alma Moyó brings to light the often marginalized musical variation of Bomba from the western part of the island, including Moca, Aguadilla, Aguada, and especially Mayaguez, where it is said that all of Puerto Ricos bomba originates. This all-inclusive group also pays homage to the traditions from Loiza, Ponce, Cataño, and Santurce. Uplifting audiences with thunderous drumming and soul-stirring singing, Alma Moyos musical treasure chest contains traditional bomba songs from as far back as the late 1700s as well as originally composed songs by its many talented songwriters. These heartfelt songs of lament, wisdom, revolution and the daily lives of African descendants in the Americas tell the stories of our ancestors, our history, our cultural and spiritual traditions, and our vision for the future of all African descendants.
Inspired by the master musicians and artisans of Puerto Rico and its Diaspora who lovingly preserve the Afro-Boricua traditions of bomba, Alma Moyó was born in the celebrated Rincon Criollo Cultural Center in the Bronx, NY, affectionately known as La Casita de Chema.
FROM WHAT I JUST READ ON THE FLECHAS WEB PAGE THAT ALMA MOYO WILL BE ATTENDING THE FIESTA DE LOIZA IN CT. THIS YEAR I WAS EXTREMELY ECSTATIC! I AM SO LOOKING FORWARD TO SEE AND HEAR YOUR PERFORMANCE.
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Thanks for the tribute to a "true brother of Harlem." Many changes have taken place all over central Harlem and the area around La Marqueta, but we will never forget what you gave to us Joe Cuba. I can still hear the echos of the timbales and congas around the "lake." RIP my friend.
To Be With You Joe Cuba......
Its a great song.......Que viva la musica latina de los 60y70....
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