Mon Rivera, Ismael Rivera, Rafael Cortijo, Rafael Cepeda, Ramito, Germán Rosario, Antonio Cabán Vale "El Topo", Andrés Jiménez "El Jíbaro", Hector Lavoe, Angel Luis Torruellas, Los Pleneros del Quinto Olivo, Los Pleneros de la 21na, Los Instantaneos de la Plena, etc...
Sounds Like
Like nothing you've ever heard before, and yet like everything that leads to a contemporary Puerto Rican musical expression... like our parents record collection on our turntables...
Description: YERBABUENA performing "Campo" at The Canal Room in New York City on June 5th, 2008.
Recorded by DJ DREShttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lbP0JcF-qs Description: YERBABUENA performing "Bámbula" at The Canal Room in New York City on June 5th, 2008.
Recorded by NYCityKidsNYCityKids
Description: YERBABUENA performing "El Embruja'o" ("Boricua, Boricua") at SoB's in New York City on July 23rd, 2007.
Recorded by Julian GQwww.barriomedia.com
Description: YERBABUENA with poets Mariposa and melleSOL preforming "Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico" at SoB's in New York City on July 23rd, 2007.
Recorded by Julian GQwww.barriomedia.com
Description: Melissa DIaz on vocals with YERBABUENA preforming "Boricua, Boricua" at El Grito de Lares in Puerto Rico on September 23rd, 2006.
Directed by Julian GQwww.barriomedia.com
Description:Yelimara gets his bomba on with YERBABUENA preforming "Lola" for October 31st '07's "RAZA" Halloween Jam at Cielo. BounceFMdotCom Channel
Description: Flaco Navaja gets his bomba on with YERBABUENA preforming "A la Linea" with Norka "La Flaka" on vocals for June '07's "RAZA" at Cielo. BounceFMdotCom Channel
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Promoters with excellent network in the entertainment industry Booking agents with clients interested in booking one of the fastest rising musical phenomenons of the current Latino/Puerto Rican Renaissance Sponsors interested in having quality product(s) endorsed all by artists that are delivering increasingly popular music and significantly influencing today's new "Latin" era of entertainment.
A new Boricua generation is embracing their traditional musical expressions. The work of Tato Torres & YERBABUENA is the product of everything that leads to a contemporary Puerto Rican musical experience.
YERBABUENA (one word) is a group of individuals who come together to play the music that they love under the musical direction of singer-composer-musician Tato Torres. It is composed of musicians, singers and dancers from the New York City area, who share an intense passion for the musical traditions of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
The last thing that will come to your mind while at a YERBABUENA event is that you're watching a show, it feels more like a cross between a jam in the park, a spiritual ceremony and a family reunion. They convey wholeness and harmony, and their music is moving beyond belief. The music they play is, by nature, participatory. Whether bomba, plena or música jíbara, it's all interactive. And being witness to their vibrant sounds and the deep joy that making music together gives them, just leaves the audience no choice but to join in the chorus or dance for the drums. After a YERBABUENA session, you'll be uplifted, tired and happy.
photo by Amy Ponce
The concept of YERBABUENA developed during the summer of 1999 at the renowned Rincón Criollo Cultural Center (aka "La Casita de Chema") in the heart of the South Bronx, and has been growing since. It developed out of the need for cultural expression, redefinition and re-appropriation of the Puerto Rican musical heritage by a new generation of Boricuas. For a long time, Puerto Rican musical traditions have been constricted by commercial culture and generally limited to holidays and "folkloric" presentations.YERBABUENA is an important part of the struggle to develop and promote identity through living Puerto Rican musical traditions such as bomba, plena and música jíbara.
photo by Felipe "El Jibaro" Garcia
While well-recognized Boricuas like Willie Colón, Marc Anthony and Ricky Martin are known worldwide for their "Latin" flavor, groups like Plena Libre, Los Pleneros de la 21, Viento de Agua, and now YERBABUENA, have been changing the way people listen to traditional Puerto Rican music in New York City and beyond.
YERBABUENA reclaims the Puerto Rican music often branded as "folkloric," refusing to accept its packaging as frozen-in-time museum pieces, only vaguely connected to contemporary culture. Instead, they make gorgeous music that incorporates past and present. YERBABUENA taps right into the core of who Boricuas are as a People.
Boricua Roots Music
Boricua Roots Music is a musical movement in which Boricua musicians have combined and re-combined elements of traditional and/or folkloric music as contemporary musical expressions. This style of modern music, which reaches back to the roots of Boricua (Puerto Rican) tradition has come to be called "roots music" or "música de raíz" in Spanish. The movement is also often referred to simply as "roots" or "raíces" in Spanish.
YERBABUENA RELEASES 1st CD
New York City's Hottest Boricua Roots Music Crew: Tato Torres & YERBABUENA released their first independent production "BORICUA ROOTS MUSIC" on October 14th, 2006.
The SugaRusH Comedy Show was a great success thanks to the beautiful people who came out & show their love & support. I would like to personally invite you to the next SugaRusH Comedy Show tomorrow Wed. July 16th @ 7:30pm Camaradas el Barrio.
I have the pleasure of hosting an evening of comedy with Los Gorditos Latino most hilariou in NYC, Kenny Ortega & Victor Cruz. W DJ Mello G on the 1's & 2's.
Camaradas is located on 115th st. & 1st ave, en el barrio. I hope you can join me for a night of good food, drinks & laughter.
Como estan mi gente! Looks like we're sharing the same stage on Sun, always a pleasure to see u guys do ur thing! As a result, I'd like to extend a personal invitation to you all to join me this Friday @ Duvet, I'm hosting a party and doing a show @ 11:30, it's an open Vodka bar from 10-11, and ladies are free all night, with gents free till 11:30. Dress to impress of course, keepin it grown and sexy! And arrive early for the free booze!! Holla!
