Jan 23, 2021
Rumba Morena
“I unfortunately don’t know her name. But what I do know…
She is a drummer/ dancer / performer with the all womxn Bata group called “Rumba Moreno” in Cuba 🇨🇺
AfroCuban Batá is an iconic symbol and sound of the Lucumí/Santería religion. Batá are talking drums that express the epic mythological narratives of the Orishas. (Orisha is the term used for West African Yoruba deities.) By imitating aspects of speech and song and by metaphorically referencing salient attributes of the deities, batá drummers facilitate the communal praising of an orisha in a music ritual known as a “toque de santo”. Source
