Yoruba Andabo Begins North American Tour with Miami and Chicago!

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Rumba is Cuban and without Cuba, there is no Rumba. As simple as that! Come and enjoy the rumba experience with Yoruba Andabo!

“The possibility of experiencing a night with Yoruba Andabo was a unique one.Unique since one can witness an incredible reunion between something sacred,mystic and an atavistic and inborn sense of partying. The audience was transported to a separate world, a world of intense colors, of full joy and beauty.If the roots are, undoubtedly African and ancient, the charm of today’s music isan authentic wonder…”

Laurent Aubert, director of the Ethno-musicologist Cultural Center in Geneva

Enjoy the rumba experience withYoruba Andabo!

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Origin of Rumba- Courtesy of and by Sonny Watson (streetswing.com)

September 18, 2015October 18, 2015 / Yoruba Andabo / Leave a comment

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Origins of the word Rumba (Room-Bah) was a generic term used to describe a music style rather than a dance style. The Ballroom Rhumba that is danced today is not really the “Rumba of Cuba.” The Ballroom Rhumba of today is really an offshoot of the “Son” (slower) or “Danzon” (even slower)” done in Cuba, a much slower and polite version of the true, sexually “frantic” (& FAST) Rumba and also can be considered Afro-cuban. The “Son” was a popular middle class Cuban dance which is a modified version of the Rumba … and the danzon’ is even a slower version than the Son.

Originally, it is said that the real Rumba came to Cuba through the African Slaves (Afro-cuban) imported from Spain into that country over two hundred years ago. Cuba eventually banned the dance as being too wild to dance in public. Eventually the law was forgotten about and some people started dancing it which helped people become more aware of the dance during the 1920’s and by 1925 President Machado put the ban back into effect, his decree stated: “this class of music (referring to African music) and the ‘rumba’ are contrary to the good custom and public order of Cuba.” However it was reported that the upper classes in Cuba did not dance the Rumba anyway, as it was to wild and frantic.

The Son is played in two parts (chorus and verse) while the Son dancers only dance to the chorus. The Claves (instrument) create the mood of the dance. However, it may have been originally a Pantomimic dance of Africa that found its way to Cuba (Afro-Cuban.) The son as a music began to take shape in the latter half of the 19th century in Cuba’s Orient province, and gave birth to several hybrids including the afro-son, guajira-son, son-pregón and son-montuno. The son is perhaps the most important form at the root of today’s popular salsa music. After a period of change and development here in the States, the Son evolved into a popular sensual couples dance known today as the “Rumba.”

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“From “La Rumba” (1978, dir Oscar Valdés)
Interview with Saldiguera & Florencio Street, Columbia performance by the Port of Cardenas, featuring dancer Machaco.”

Today there are three distinct styles of rumba done in Cuba with the dance primarily being danced as a freestyle or solo (non-lead and follow) dance. The first being called the “Guaguancó,” which is a seduction between the man and woman whereas he can try to get carnal and “attack” her. The second is the “Yambú” which has a flirty woman dancing with a older man (man can be young too) who cannot get carnal or “attack” her and finally the more polite “Columbia” which is more the traditional “Rooster and Hen” dance where the male struts his masculinity around and about the female.” The early Cuban Rumba can at times look like Cha-Cha and Mambo.

Lew Quinn and Joan Sawyer are said to have tried the first real attempt at introducing the Rumba to Americans as far back as 1913, followed by Emil Coleman in 1923 and by Benito Collada in 1925 at a club called “El Chico” in Greenwich Village. In 1929 a small interest was growing in Latin-American music and in 1930 a Nuevos Ritmo (new rhythm) song called “The Peanut Vendor” by Don Azpiazu’s Havana Casino Orchestra was released which became a hit as a new DANCE to American dance forms.

By the 1930’s all of America had become knowledgeable of Latin music and the Rumba. The “American Rumba” of today as written about earlier is a version of the son that Quinn and Sawyer tried to introduce years ago. Today it is known as a “Latin-Ballroom” couples dance (lead and follow) and correctly titled the “Dance Of Romance.” The American and International styled Rumba’s can be a very beautiful dance when done by a polished couple.

Many of the erotic movements of the Ballroom Rumba stemmed from the original dancers of Cuba doing the tasks of the day such as “Shoeing the Mare,” “Doin’ the Laundry/Dishes,” “Climbing a Rope,” or the “Courtship of Barnyard Fowls.” The costumes that many performers originally wore, represented this in the woman’s long ruffled train of her skirt (hens feathers) or the mans ruffled shirt sleeves and or chest which represents the cocks hackle feathers. Today’s latin costumes look more like Lingerie. The Ballroom Rumba is a nice dance for dancers to showcase their technique ability and a polite sensuousness and romantic flair on a dance floor, whereas the Cuban rumba is more a rhythmic street dance and can appear to be of a cool, yet hectic and sometimes wild abandon with the technique more about the rhythm, roots and soul of the dance, rather than being a commercially pretty dance form.

The Jamaican Mento dance closely resembles the Rumba. The Rumba was replaced in popularity by the Mambo, and later the Cha-Cha. The Rumba is sometimes spelt as Rhumba and Roomba.

Also a new dance (c.1975) called the Night Club-Two Step (NC-2) was originally known as “Disco Two Step” (ala Buddy Schwimmer) is a modern semi-version of the Rumba, (a few say samba), it is done to modern slow music by pop artists such as Madonna, etc. NC-2 is mainly done in the West Coast Swing and Country Western communities.

El film Havana Instant tiene como tema de presentación el track La Gozadera, de Yoruba Andabo…

September 11, 2015December 15, 2015 / Yoruba Andabo / Leave a comment

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Havana Instant / A Moment in Havana, film directed by Guillermo Ivan (Mexico / Cuba) and filmed entirely in the city of Havana, Cuba in a co-production between Mexico, Colombia, Cuba and the United States, was awarded on September 7 at the 39th Montreal World Film Festival in which had its world premiere to a full house.

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El film Havana Instant tiene como tema de presentación el track La Gozadera, de Yoruba Andabo…

September 11, 2015September 11, 2015 / Yoruba Andabo / 1 Comment

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Habana Instant / Un Instante en La Habana, largometraje dirigido por Guillermo Ivan (México/Cuba) y filmado en su totalidad en la ciudad de la Habana, Cuba en una co-producción entre México, Colombia, Cuba y Estados Unidos, fue galardonado el pasado 7 de septiembre en la 39 edición del Festival Internacional de Cine de Montreal en el cual tuvo su estreno mundial a sala llena. El film se llevó el Premio de la Innovación del Jurado en la Competencia Mundial y fue ovacionado de pie por el público que asistió a dicha premier.

Adicionalmente, Habana Instant recibió la 1ra. mención especial del Jurado Ecuménico (Interfilm-Signis), organización que otorga menciones a películas participantes en la competencia oficial de los festivales más reconocidos del mundo que muestren un talento genuino y que logren representar experiencias humanas que sensibilicen y cuestionen a la audiencia respecto a temas espirituales, humanos, y sociales y que fomenten valores de justicia, solidaridad, paz y dignidad. Esta organización se encarga de honrar proyectos de alta calidad cinematográfica que promuevan el poder del cine como un medio artístico de comunicación.

Habana Instant también participará en la competencia oficial del Festival Internacional de Cine de New Orleans en la categoría: Mejor Largometraje, el cual se llevará a cabo en la ciudad de New Orleans del 14 al 22 de Octubre de 2015.

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Additionally, Instant Havana received the 1st Special mention of the Ecumenical Jury (Interfilm-Signis), an organization that provides references to films participating in the official competition of the most renowned festivals in the world who show a genuine talent and achieve represent human experiences that raise awareness and challenge the audience on issues spiritual, human, and social and to promote values of justice, solidarity, peace and dignity. This organization is responsible for honoring high quality film projects that promote the power of film as an artistic medium.

Instant Havana will also participate in the official competition of the International Film Festival of New Orleans in the category: Best Feature Film, which will be held in the city of New Orleans from 14 to 22 October 2015.

Yoruba Andabo en el Teatro Artime en Miami! Corre la noticia!

August 21, 2015October 18, 2015 / Yoruba Andabo / Leave a comment

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Founded in 1961, Yoruba Andabo enjoys a special rapport on and off the island, as is a true example of authenticity and versatility to take on folk and popular traditions, from the great diversity of Cuban culture.

With a hallmark, the cast grown dissimilar genres that make up the African roots on the island as the Congo, Yoruba, Abakuá and called Rumba complex, with its traditional rhythms, especially yambú cycles, guaguancó and columbia, creating contemporary sounds and voices.

The spirit of Santería dances on: Courtesy of and by Tony Montague

August 18, 2015October 18, 2015 / Yoruba Andabo / Leave a comment

The spirit of Santería dances on
by Tony Montague

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When members of Yoruba Andabo perform the rumba gua guanc, you can expect feathers to fly. The ritualistic Afro-Cuban dance represents the courtship of a rooster and a hen. To intricate drum rhythms and call-and-response chants, the male performer attempts to catch his partner off guard touching her crotch with the flick of a handkerchief or thrusting his limbs and pelvis at her provocatively while the female symbolically protects herself with hand or skirt.

“The guaguanc is the most popular form of rumba, which was created in the ports of Matanzas and Havana, where most of us come from,” says Matías Geovani del Pino Rodríguez, singer, director, and cofounder of the 15-piece Yoruba Andabo ensemble. “It has always been an important part of what we do. The company started out in 1961 as Guaguanc Marítimo Portuario a group of dockworkers who got together to perform at a labour festival.

“But our interest was not only in rumba,” continues Rodríguez. “We wanted to celebrate all aspects of our Afro-Cuban heritage, which is rich and complex. When the slaves were shipped across the Atlantic, all they took with them was their music, their dance, and their religious beliefs. They maintained these traditions through centuries of repression by concealing their activities, often in ingenious ways. Since the [1959 Cuban] revolution, Afro-Cuban culture has come out in the open, and is now experiencing a major revival.”

At the heart of the mesmerizing spectacle that Yoruba Andabo presents is the dance and music of Santería, a religion rooted in West Africa, and among the Yoruba people of Nigeria in particular. Its initiates venerate orishas (or santos), spirits similar to the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece. In Cuba, the slaves fused these orishas with Catholic saints, in whose name and image they could be worshipped. Sometimes genders were crossed: Chang & the orisha of manhood, fire, thunder, and lightning was equated with St. Barbara, probably because, like hers, his emblematic colours are red and white.

“All of the orishas have their own colour, dress, and symbols as well as their own ritual dance, chant, and toqué [rhythm],” Rodríguez explains. “We present the most important deities: Elegguá, Oggún, Ochún, Yemayá, Babalú, Chang, and Obbatalá. The dancers perform solo, and express the particular qualities of each orisha. Their movements are based on tradition, though these are not precisely choreographed the dancer follows the rhythms played by the drummers, who in turn follow the chant of the leader and chorus.”

The company Yoruba Andabo has a long-standing link with the arts scene in Canada. In 1993, it earned a Juno for contributing to jazz saxophonist Jane Bunnett’s Spirits of Havana.

“We are travelling all over the world, and keeping our Afro-Cuban arts and culture alive,” says Rodríguez. “This is why we are called Yoruba Andabo, because in the Carabalí language [of Nigeria], andabo means ‘a friend or admirer,’ and we are all friends and loyal followers of the Yoruban religion. It sustains us, just as it sustained our ancestors.”

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Rumba group Yoruba Andabo celebrates 30 years with new release in 2015 -COURTESY by: Rafael Lim

August 15, 2015October 18, 2015 / Yoruba Andabo / 1 Comment

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Rumba group Yoruba Andabo celebrates 30 years with new release in 2015

by: Rafael Lim

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Rumba, which was born long ago in slave barracks, cane field settlements and urban tenements, is heard today in the world’s most prestigious venues, such as New York City’s Carnegie Hall.

Rumba does not go out of style and the Cuban genre is now experiencing its greatest popularity, an explosion no less surprising than the group Yoruba Andabo.

Yoruba Andabo was featured as a special guest on the discs La rumba soy yo (2001 Latin Grammy) and Tremenda rumba, by Maracas y Nueva Visión, nominated for a Grammy in 2003

Many of the group’s tracks have made the hit parade charts of Cuban radio, not to mention Cuban stages, especially La gozadera, with the powerful earthy voice of lead singer, or akpwón, Ronald González, backed up in the choruses by Jorge Luis Hernández.

Yoruba Andabo holds a peña (a short, informal concert) every Sunday at the Galiano Casa de la Música, whiich is always filled to capacity, well before it begins at 5:00 pm. Group leader Geovani del Pino has attracted rumba as well as salsa lovers, and is now preparing a Saturday afternoon peña at the Las Vegas cabaret.

“It’s like a fever,” an international visitor tells me, “The fury for rumba in Cuba is amazing.” A great number of tourists are intent upon seeing a performance of the genre, considering it a kind of musical reflection of the country.

Traditional or folkloric music has often been viewed as “museum” music, reserved for specific events, but visitors want to know Cuba’s most authentic, original music.

Yoruba Andabo’s producer tells me that the Cuban label Bis Music will release the groups new disc, Cántalo y báilalo como yo, while Del Pino recalls that the group made a huge splash at New York City’s music mecca, Carnegie Hall, November 30, 2012.

Tickets were selling for $300, three months before the concert, which was the first by a Cuban rumba group at such a prestigious venue, and the spectacle was expected to be of the highest level.

“We performed Yoruba music and rumba. We prepared the “Orishas de la rumba” segment, in which we performed batá with Iyesá. We included Guaguancó, Columbia, Yambú and Conga. As a special we offered a rumba version of El necio by the singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez who had sung this song at the Manhattan theater.”

Yoruba Andabo arrived at Carnegie Hall as part of the Festival of Latin American Voices, along with Cuban musicians Chucho Valdés, Aldo López Gavilán and Dayami González.

The group recently performed in London’s Barbican Centre, during the Nations Dance/ Cuba50 Festival, in which the renowned Cuban bands Orquestra Aragón and Los Van Van also participated.

Yoruba is the name of an extensive area in West Africa, and Andabo, in the Carabalí language means friend, follower or admirer, reflecting the rumberos aspiration to be something like the followers of Yoruba culture.

The group was born on the docks of Havana Bay in 1961, when a group of workers got together to create the Maritime Port Guaguancó. In 1985, they took the name Yoruba Andabo and began their professional work performing during the Peña del Ambia (Eloy Machado) at the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC).

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Ten years later, during the height of the Cuban salsa boom, they became the Yoruba Andabo Folkloric Company, composed of 17 singers, percussionists and dancers. They cultivated different genres of rumba, both secular and religious, with a rich, broad repertory including a Congo cycle, a broader Yoruba and Abakuá one, as well as rumba based on the most traditional rhythms such as Bambú, Guaguancó and Columbia.

Its music is enriched with carefully studied and executed choreographies, which incorporate Cuba’s longstanding Carnival conga tradition.

Yoruba Andabo has performed across the country and around the world, at renowned venues such as Colombia’s Teatro Colón; Harbourfront Centre in Toronto; and Aaron David Hall in New York; and has shared the stage with Tata Güines, Pablo Milanés, the Buena Vista Social Club, Chucho Valdés, Joe Arroyo, Lázaro Ross, Gonzalito Rubalcaba, Grupo Olodum, Niche, Diablos Danzantes de Oaxaca, Maracas, Celeste Mendoza and Cuba’s National Symphony Orchestra.
Yoruba Andabo was featured as a special guest on the discs La rumba soy yo (2001 Latin Grammy) and Tremenda rumba, by Maracas y Nueva Visión, nominated for a Grammy in 2003.

In 2006, the group received two nominations from the Academy of Traditional Music, in the Best Album and Best Audiovisual categories, for its CD-DVD Rumba en La Habana… con Yoruba Andabo, which was also nominated for Cubadisco 2006 awards.

This year, the group is making plans to celebrate its 30th anniversary, September 24, looking to a bright future for rumba which was declared a component of Cuba’s Intangible National Heritage in 2012, and continues to influence a variety of other genres including salsa and timba.

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The meaning of Yoruba Andabo (Courtesy of Ayvamusica.com)

August 11, 2015October 18, 2015 / Yoruba Andabo / Leave a comment

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This name is nothing more than the conjugation of two words from African dialects. Yoruba is the name given to an extensive territory in southern Africa, inhabited by several nations and consequently their cultures. The word Andabo, in Carabalí language, means: friend, follower, admirer. Therefore, “Yoruba Andabo”, seeks to be something like “the friends, the admirers and followers of the yoruba lands and their cultures.”

This group had its genesis in the Havana Docks where, in 1961, a group of workers met and created what was known then as “Guaguancó Marítimo Portuario.” When they became professional, the group was re-baptized “YORUBA ANDABO” when, in 1986, they started working in a series of activities for and with the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC). These activities were organized by Cuban poet Eloy “The Ambia” Machado, who put the group in contact with singer and composer Pablo Milanés, who invited them to participate in the celebrations for the 25th Anniversary of the record company EGREM. From that moment on they started carrying out important work with folk singer Merceditas Valdés. In 1994, as they stepped into a new working stage, they adopted the name Folkloric Company YORUBA ANDABO.

The company is made up of seventeen artists, including singers, percussionists and dancers, and professionally performs the most important genres of both religious and profane music within the Africans roots of Cuban culture. This work includes:

• Congo Cycle where they do the three types of Palo, Makuta and Yuca singing, with instruments such as the Mula, Cachimbo and Caja drums, including the use of the Catá and the Aggogo.

• Yoruba Cycle ranging from singings and prayers, working with the Bata drums orchestra and the Chequeré, to the profane type of “Bembé” or “Güiro”, all of them with the Oricha dances such as: Elegguá, Oggún, Obbatalá, Yemayá, Babalú, Changó and Oyá.

• Abakuá Cycle including the liturgical singing and prayers, with the complex execution of the Tankomo drums and the colorful dances of the Iremes or “little devils”, symbolizing the spirit of the dead.

• The Rumba Cycle with this cycle YORUBA ANDABO specializes in rescuing the traditional rhythms as the Yambú, the Guaguancó, and the Columbia, performing them with the original instruments.

The company also offers workshops and seminars on Folkloric Percussion, Folk Dances and singing, Popular Percussion and Popular Dances. These educational activities are carried out by well known specialists who are members of our staff.
YORUBA ANDABO has performed on important national and international stages, such as the Mella, Karl Marx, América, Amadeo Roldán and Nacional Theaters; and the Tropicana, Capri, Parisién and Copa Room Night Clubs in Cuba, the Colón Theater in Colombia, the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, ad the Aaron David Hall in New York City; they have participated in such important events as the Rumba Festivals, The Percussion Festivals (PERCUBA) and Golden Boleros in the island, the World of Music and Dance (WOMAD) in Canada, The International Arts Festival of Costa Rica, and the 15th Annual Expression International Festival in the United States, in the Tajin Summit 2001 Festival in Veracruz and in the 8th International Afro Caribbean Festival. They have also shared stages with personalities as Tata Güines, Pablo Milanés, Puntillita, Joe Arroyo, Celeste Mendoza, National Symphonic Orchestra conducted by Leo Brower, Lázaro Ros, Gonzalito Rubalcava and the Niche Band, Olodum Group, Oaxaca´s Dancing Devils, among others. Yoruba Andabo won the Latin Grammy Award in 2001, in the Folkloric Music Category, for its participation in the CD “La Rumba Soy Yo”, and was finalist at Latin Grammy Award in 2006, in the Folkloric Music Category, for its participation in the CD “Rumba en La Habana con…”
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Yoruba Andabo en el Alameda

August 3, 2015October 18, 2015 / Yoruba Andabo / Leave a comment

From the Venezuelan newspaper “Today Venezuela”

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The spirit of the rumba is the name of the show today at 5:00 pm, will present the Cuban group Yoruba Andabo in the Alameda Theater, located in the parish of St. Augustine.

This will be the third concert offered by the group, since his arrival in Venezuela last July 23 for the second time this year. The first of the presentations was in the state Yaracuy, where they released to the Venezuelan people, a rumba-time version of the song popularized by Ruben Blades, Maria Lionza.

The second presentation took place in the mountains of Sorte, there they sang the theme that will be contained in the next album from this company born 30 years ago to the goddess. “It was a very beautiful thing in the magic and atmosphere that was created who welcomed us and explained that this (Maria Lionza) is a representation of one of the goddesses of Afro-Cuban mythology, the goddess Oshun,” said manager Company and producer Jose Lobato, in an interview with CCS City.

About his upcoming show at the Alameda Theatre, Lobato said the entire group is very excited and with great expectations after a tour of the parish of St. Augustine.

“There is a wonderful atmosphere, the audience knows the work of Yoruba Andabo long and joyfully await us,” he said.

Within the repertoire will present the items on his latest album, also titled The Spirit of the rumba and “one box with the Yoruba Orishas African Pantheon”, the Congo and Abacuá.

The manager also said on Sunday presented his show, this time in the Juan Bautista Plaza Room of the National Library at 2:00 pm.

Andabo Yoruba consists of six musicians, five percussionists and two dancing couples onstage ranging from 19 to 77 years old, spreading the congo beats, Abacuá and rumba, with the dances that make up the Cuban popular expressions.

In this regard, he said Lobato defend their culture is one of the most important work they do as a group. “The defense of the identity of the Americas by promoting respect for indigenous values, does not mean they are static, in contrast, continue to evolve with new rhythms, with a new approach, but always letting us know where we come” , he said.

Yoruba Andabo has presented its show at important venues in countries like France, the United States, among others.

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Hello World, the blog of Yoruba Andabo begins!

July 19, 2015October 18, 2015 / Yoruba Andabo / Leave a comment

Yoruba Andabo is a Cuban band and a talented company of 16 singers, percussionists and dancers, performing sacred W Original African music is preserved as it has-been interpreted locally, after it HAD Been Brought there by slaves in the late 16th century. The ensemble Takes African ITS name from two words loosely translated as “the friends and followers of the Yoruba lands and culture.”

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The skilled artists from the Company are professional and accredited instructors and offer master classes, lectures and workshops on singing, dance and percussion. They are motivated by a wide ranging musical repertoire interwoven with unique and exceptional choreographies Which grows year after year in a profound and meticulous way.

Yoruba Andabo’s art has-been appreciated by audiences at many public places and Well Known theaters around the world. From Canada, Brazil, the Caribbean, Colombia, Spain, Mexico, Geneva, Paris, and London, Yoruba Andabo have even sold out and Performed at the famed Carnegie Hall in New York City. ‘

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Yoruba Andabo is a Cuban band and a company of 16 singers talented percussionists and dancers performing music of West Africa sacred original preserved as interpreted locally, after being taken there by slaves in the late 16th century group takes its name from two African words loosely translated as “the friends and followers of Yoruba land and culture.”

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The Company has its genesis in the docks of Havana in 1961, when a group of workers gathered at parties and union artistic events. They gave rise to Guaguancó Maritime Port, whole, in 1985, he began a professional career with the name of Yoruba Andabo.
From that moment, he offered his art in various activities of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) He worked with the record label EGREM, initiated by the composer and singer Pablo Milanes, and shared the stage with folk singer Merceditas Valdes.
Currently, the company integrated 16 artists, singers, drummers and dancers. The cast grown dissimilar genres that make up the African roots of Cuban culture and include losciclos Congo, Yoruba, Abakuá and called the rumba, with its traditional rhythms, especially yambú, guaguancó and Columbia, but also They include elements of fusion with other musical genres, creating contemporary sounds and voices.
Several Andabo Yoruba artists unfold as teachers and teach master classes and workshops in singing, dancing and drumming. Motivates them wide repertoire interwoven with unique choreographies that grows each year of deep and thorough manner.

The Spirit of Rumba – Buy Now
discography Yoruba Andabo exceeds twenty titles, many of which have won awards nationally and internationally.
He conquered a Juno Award, the Canadian equivalent of the American Grammy Award nominations from the Academy of Music Spain and a shared and two nominations for the Latin Grammy.
Andabo Yoruba art has been appreciated by audiences of important places and scenes from Canada, Brazil, the Caribbean, Colombia, Spain, Mexico, Geneva, Paris, London and the famed Carnegie Hall in New York.

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