How Bomba became the sound of resistance in Puerto Rico

Bomba, a traditional dance and music style in Puerto Rico, emerged around the 16th century, mixing sounds brought by enslaved Africans with those of Indigenous Taíno. “It’s a fingerprint of Puerto Rico,” John Leguizamo says.


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How Bomba became the sound of resistance in Puerto Rico

#PuertoRico #Bomba #JohnLeguizamo

[levlowell]

That little girl at the end brought the biggest smile. I could hear my grandmothers voice saying
jump Chula jump 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷

[jah-jah]

Thank you for showing the beauty in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

[louissantos]

thank you john for showing the beautiful of la bomba and the beauty of Puerto Rico 🙌🙌🙌💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷

[Yahaira]

This makes me so happy - so much history of our people that others don’t know. It’s time 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷❤

[t.r.campbell]

Puerto Rico is a great place, a beautiful island and a wonderful getaway during February.

[ZepolWorkzGarage]

I thought I knew alot about my culture but keep showing me more. I didn't know the flag had changed blues and Bomba beats amazing. 🙏👍🔥🇵🇷

[jo]

I just love my culture, although I was born and raised in Buffalo New York I used to always talk to my grandmother she was telling me about the culture, now my grandmother is from Spain she moved to Puerto Rico at a young age and quickly adjusted to the culture I love you and miss you and thank you for all the wonderful stories of Puerto Rico

[iamwordlife]

Love my culture and to be able to learn more about it thru videos like this is a blessing 🇵🇷🙏🏼

[SylvetteTravels]

I love Bomba y Plena from Loíza I use to go to Copi at night to be part of this culture. ❤🇵🇷

[accessdenied]

This who we are and any government that tries to dismantle our culture will always be met with resistance until what was taken from us by centuries of genocide towards our natives! ⚒️🪓🛖✊🏾💪🏾Never forget that you have been standing on stolen lands” from the North to the South☑️ Resiste BORIKEN 🙌🌞🌻

[adalbeltorivera]

Mr Cepeda he was my teacher of bomba and plena the best 🇵🇷

[teresalegler]

Love it! Thanks for this lesson. Now let’s start the dancing.

[ilianavazquez]

Me encanta mucho ver esto. Bendiciones!!

[amgooder]

Leguizamo use to say he was 🇵🇷until his father ratted him out😁 by saying he is Colombian...and doesn't understand why he says he's PRican all the time.
Puerto Ricans love ya anyway✌️

[travelingjohn]

Shout out to my Afro-Puerto Ricans ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

[Manuel-zowg]

Ms chichi Rodriguez was hilarious movie too won fue 🌶️😊. ❤️ History of our beautiful 🇵🇷🐸🏝️

[CarpeDiem-vdvo]

Not Tainos but Boricuas from the island of Boriken. Taino was given to the indigenous by the colonizers. I am not what the colonizers gave to me. I reclaim my origins my roots and my culture.

[luzmoyet]

❤ Bomba is taino in Africa people my family is Puerto Rican in Africa

[dr.migueltorrezedd]

John said what the blackest dude in the video wouldn't say (he could have said "originally it was created, by the Africans who came here enslaved, but the Europeans/Spaniards and other groups, added a little twist to it decades later").

[Jaymaster]

We want our island to have a new president in our country