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Puerto Rico Al Mundo

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This is great music....Plena and Bomba are musical styles from Puerto Rico (Bomba from the Loiza Aldea region, Plena has deeper roots in central and souther Puerto Rico).For this music to be called Cuban in origin is a mistake, and should be corrected.I love my Cuban brothers and sisters, but I am tired of outsiders saying that everything that comes out of Puerto Rico is based on Cuban or something else. People, please do your research first before you say such things, because I take it offensive manner, and I know I am not the only one who feels this way. Plena and other forms of Puerto Rican music are at my heart and this is a great CD to own for anyone interested in true Puerto Rican music, and its a great investment.

I'd like to know whence Elena Oumano gets her information about the origin of salsa. My understanding is that it is not of Cuban origin. And if not of Puerto Rican origin, we have certainly not co-opted it, as she describes. I have heard the selections from this CD and it does not sound Cuban in origin, i.e. mambo or rumba. If she knows something that the rest of us Caribeños do not, please Elenita cite your source of information. Thank you.

De Puerto Rico Al Mundo by Viento De Agua is probably one of the most interesting musical production in it's genre. The level of experimentation with salsa, jazz and songo while establishing the powerfull sounds of bomba y plena as the main core of their musical statement made Viento de Agua an amazing force in the Puerto Rican Musical Scene. Numbers like "Fiesta De Plena", "De Puerto Rico A Nueva York" or "El Rumor" are examples of how you are suppose to use "panderos". Viento de Agua is in a league of its own because their musical concept does not concede to the easy ready made, "Christmas music", "folkloric" or "payola" groups that proliferate in the Island. I hope that Viento de Agua continues to produce such a massive "aguacero" (rainfall) in the forthcoming productions.

Whomever wrote the editorial review needs to wake up ...(...)Bomba y Plena is PUERTO RICAN music and doesn't have a thing to do with Son Cubano!!!(...)

I'm sticking to Hector Lavoe, Willie Colon, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Andy Montañez, Gran Combo, ... and Viento de Agua, Plena Libre, etc.

PUERTO RICO LO HACE MEJOR !!

ELENA OUMANO DOES NEED TO GET HER FACTS STRAIGHT. AS FAR AS THE CUBA VS PUERTO RICO THING, CUBA Y PUERTO RICO ARE THE WINGS OF THE SAME BIRD!!! SINCE Y'ALL TOOK TIME TO GIVE SO MANY OF YOUR FACTS LET ME ASK EACH ONE OF YOU A QUESTION, IF YOU CAN ANSWER IT AND SHUT ME UP I'LL NEVER WRITE ANOTHER REWIEW ON AMAZON OK? LET'S GO!!!

sexymoreno03/ you said that Celia Cruz made salsa popular but that it's roots were not Cuban, so why was she known for singing SON MONTUNO,GUAGUANCO,CHA CHA CHA, ETC rhythms that originate in CUBA? come back to me.

James Serrat president and executive director/ if the creative artists that pioneered SALSA were Puerto Rican! why was Orestes Vilato playing timbales for Ray Barretto? why was Carlos 'PATATO' Valdez playing congas for Ismael Rivera? come back to me.

Joe Aponte/ if Beny More never had a trombone solo than tell me what were they doing in a song called Que bueno baila usted? Listen to it!!! come back to me.

Pedro/ did Hector Lavoe or Andy Montañez ever use barriles or did they use congas for their music? come back to me.

WE GAVE IT A BLEND OF FLAVORS THAT NOBODY COULD IMAGINE AND WE CALLED IT SALSA, BUT DON'T FORGET WHERE THE ORIGINAL RECIPE CAME FROM.

It's very ironic that people are having this discussion. Yes, Bomba and Plena comes from PUERTO RICO (Bomba, I think was born in Loiza...And Plena is from Ponce, del barrio San Anton, it's debated...) But it had nothing to do with Cuban Son.

But while Puerto Ricans are here arguing against Cubans about the origin of this music... I'll tell u... from most of the people in the U.S., and I'm sure of other places, who are not Latino and dont know anything about Latino culture, and music and stuff... They are very, very, very, very quick to label Salsa, Merengue, or whatever as MEXICAN music; Just because it is sang in Spanish!!!!

I think someone needs to do the educating to these poor folks... No offense against Mexicans, cuz I love all of my international family from all across the world...BUT, if I showed them real Mexican music, they'd probably want to run away... lol...

But you see, (for example) Alot of people think that Cumbia came from Mexico, when in fact, it was invented by Colombians in the first place!!! Just because alot of Mexican singers have popularized Cumbia, doesn't make its roots Mexican. Same thing with Salsa... just because Celia Cruz, La querida Reina de La Salsa, was Cuban, and she popularized Salsa alot across the world, does not make it's roots Cuban...

Elena must be part of the Miami Cuban mafia who attempts to
place the Cuban flag in front of everything that is Latin whether they have influenced it or not. I guess Cubans are a little angry because they were never able to create such a dance
like Salsa. the Forefathers of salsa are without a doubt Cortijo
y Su Combo and Richie Ray/Bobby Cruz with Tito Puente & Mon Rivera in the middle. Bomba and Plena having anything Cuban is just a discussion that I don't wan't to even go into because I nearly had a heart attack reading that! that was very appauling and shocking to me. To the salsa concept I will get into.
No Cuban band ever came close to Salsa, not even Arsenio Rodriguez. Arsenio innovated Cuban popular music not salsa.
For people who are not used to hearing that type of music,
Arsenio's music may even seem lame at times and not to mention
Beny More's (Cuba's greatest singer) his music is far from
being as exciting as Puerto Rican salsa is. A BRIEF HISTORY OF SALSA: Tito Puentes adds the timbales to Afro-Cuban music, however mutates Afro-Cuban music into a "new-rhythm" that he and others were unaware of. Puente focused more on timabales
that other instruments since he removed Bongo's in several of his songs such as what was labeled as a Guaguanco, "Agua Limpia Todo". The sound to this song however came very close to salsa.
Cortijo y Su Combo successfully fused Bomba and Plena with
the Puerto Rican (Tito Puente) styles of the Afro-Cuban Guaguanco and Guaracha. Mon Rivera introduced the trombone section and thus creating the trombone conjunto (something that
Arsenio never used and that Beny had but rarely used and never
had solos with). Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz furthered the development of salsa their trumpets were unmatchable and
were able to go heads with La Sonora Matancera as Richie's Sound
had a very strong trumpet equallling La Sonora Mantanceras sound. Ray & Cruz even fused more rhythms such as cha-cha and
pachanga to their music to create todays salsa sound.

He tenido la oportunidad de compartir con este grupo, y ha sido una experiencia inolvidable. Pude aprender sobre la musica de mi pais.Gracias por ser mi pana (TiTo)TQM SHEIDY

I bought this CD THREE months ago, an I still haven't removed it from my CD player.

Excelente trabajo musical. Magistral combinacion de la plena puertorriqueña con otros elementos musicales como la bomba, la salsa y jazz. La influencia jazzistica se hace mas evidente en los arreglos de la seccion de vientos. Una joya entre las nuevas agrupaciones de plena.