(WXYZ) — Whether it's Salsa, Merengue or Cha Cha, it would be nearly impossible to go to a LatinX gathering and not see dancing. It's a form of expression embedded ...

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SAN ANTONIO – Nereida Burgess knows she’s not far from her native island of Puerto Rico when she starts dancing. “It’s a very joyful moment for me. It’s like I’m feeling that come back home,” she said ...

Tearra Oso was just 7 years old when she first discovered Bomba. “My cousin was going to a Bomba dance class and I didn’t want to be at home alone,” Oso said. “I wanted to go with her.” What was ...

Watch Viento de Agua perform a traditional bomba with dancers Melanie Maldonado and Roberto Cepeda at the 2004 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Bomba is percussion-driven music created by enslaved ...

First documented in the seventeenth century, Caribbean bomba emerged in the context of colonialism. Mariana Núñez Lozada Campo, yo vivo triste Cada día sufriendo más Ay Dio’ ¿qué será de mí? If you ...

Who has the Bomba? Agua Dulce has the bomba-traditional Puerto Rican dance music for which dancing is actually essential. There are 917 musicians in Agua Dulce. OK, that's not true; there are only ...