Who is a rumbero?
When I was at Cuba I
used to know some rumberos. O, those are extraordinary people.
-Where did you learn
to dance like this?
- Learn? I came to
dance in the street every day, I danced and danced, until I became rumbero. I
am rumbero, I didn't learn to dance, I won it.
-What are you doing
tonight?
-We have rumba, I
have to go, I am rumbero, nyo.
-So you like dancing
or playing?
-I am rumbero, I do
everything. This is impossible to be rumbero and not to play drum, or dance or
sing. I am rumbero.
It is a lifestyle. A
lifestyle that becomes a music. The everyday story, so simple for us, becomes a
rumba song, and the day-to-day sentiments, that are so sharp and vivid and
complicated, almost sacral for all rumberos, become the lines and the poetry of
the streets. It is not so important that rumbero has only one t-shirt and only
avocados for the whole week to eat. But what a rumba was yesterday in the
barrio, nyo! Tremenda rumba, cojones !(untranslatable words)
And
that's how the rumba becomes the legend.
Domingo Pau is a
legendary rumbero. Learning from such a person is like touching a live poetry,
a true verdadera energy of rumba.
-How is diferent
rumbero from other people?
-After knowing
rumbero you will never be the same.
Here is a video with
translation of the poetry of a legendary columbia song that inspired that
famous Domingo Pau's dance...
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