Photo Feature by Idania Cardenas
HAVANA TIMES – The Rumbata group was created in 1996 by Wilmer Joel Ferrer, from Camaguey, Cuba, who decided to create a musical group dedicated to cultivating rumba.
Declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO since 2006, they decided to explore its fusion with other sounds. Thus, the group (rumba and batá) emerges, suggesting from its name that what is going to be heard goes beyond the conservative treatment of the genre to delve into the search for other melodic and rhyt