Huracán de Fuego
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The group of the Venezuelan Caribbean, Huracán de Fuego, arrived with the only aim to sing and to dance the drum. A drum, or better, drums taken from the area of Maracaibo
by black enslaved, coming from which today is Angola
, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Where in many of those places the tradition of the drums is lost, a group of young people recovers them. They are chimbangueles and the cumacos, great drums that are touched fallen down, seating the musician on its wood body and using the heel of the foot against the patch in search of the correct refining. Huracán de Fuego, presented its first compact disc: “Vamos a darle”, with only percussions and voices. Voices with the typical sound of the Caribbean, with songs like: “Bomba que bomba”, “La encubridora”, “Rebelión” and “El negro primero”.
Maracaibo
Maracaibo is a city and municipality located in northwestern Venezuela off the western coast of the Lake Maracaibo. It is the second-largest city in the country after the national capital Caracas and the capital of Zulia state...
by black enslaved, coming from which today is Angola
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...
, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Where in many of those places the tradition of the drums is lost, a group of young people recovers them. They are chimbangueles and the cumacos, great drums that are touched fallen down, seating the musician on its wood body and using the heel of the foot against the patch in search of the correct refining. Huracán de Fuego, presented its first compact disc: “Vamos a darle”, with only percussions and voices. Voices with the typical sound of the Caribbean, with songs like: “Bomba que bomba”, “La encubridora”, “Rebelión” and “El negro primero”.