Kids, Music & Dance: Lucumi the Rumbero of Cuba child protection once every nine years

once every nine years

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”—The Los Angeles Times

for he uses it to express his feelings

Kids, Music & Dance: Lucumi the Rumbero of Cuba child protection once every nine yearsLucumi is ten and lives in Havanas black district. Brought up to the beat of drums, he dreams of becoming a great rumbero. With other kids on his block he improvises rumbas on old cans and pots and pans. One Saturday the best of Havanas musicians decide to get together at the Solar California to honor the memory of Chano Pozo, otherwise known as the drum of Cuba. With the rumba beat, Lucumi sings, dances, plays and talks about his life, as if better