The epic of rumba: Part 2- The African gift to Cuba and the world.
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Can you imagine, how far this Kongo empire music has come through centuries? It’s such a great recognition for all those rumba musicians who used to be arrested and beaten by the police in Cuba! They were true unsung victims of the then open policies and attempts to erase completely any Africanity from the cultures, in Cuba and many other Latin American countries.
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