Description
Rumberos de Cuba, founded by its director, Rodolfo Chacon Tartabull, is a group which has been described as "some of the best and most engaging musicians and dancers from the barrios of Havana", many of them past members of the Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba. The group was created to preserve and present the different facets of the music of black origin - bequeathed to Cuba by the Congos, Mandigas, Karabalis, Yorubas, and others - as well as the group of inter-related genres, styles, etc known in Cuba as rumba.
Rumberos de Cuba are therefore making a significant contribution towards keeping the spark of the rumba alive, which has at times been in danger of extinction. It is also a memorial to Pancho Quinto, Eulogio ("el amaliano", "from the barrio Jesus Maria"), Evaristo Aparicio ("el picaro", "the mischievous"), Checa, Tio Tom, Calixto Callaba, Malanga, Virulilla, Sardiguera and many other well-respected and popular founders of Cuban rumba.
