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Plena Libre
Plena Libre combines the traditional Plena and Bomba rhythms with other Afro-Caribbean styles and jazz to create a contagious dance music that honors the group’s deep sense of the unique indigenous musical traditions, while embracing modern sounds.
The trailblazing Plena Libre has been thrilling international audiences for nearly three decades. Masters of the traditional Puerto Rican plena and bomba styles, Plena Libre fuses well-loved traditions with modern Afro-Caribbean influences, putting a new and always electrifying spin on this scintillating music. With mesmerizing hand drumming, raucous horns, and soaring three-part vocal harmonies, this multi-Grammy Award–nominated band always brings the heat.
Legado
By Plena Libre
Label: La Buena Fortuna Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Flores de Primavera; Carnaval; Ella Tiene; Requinto; Dos Ojos; Voy Subiendo; El Bravo; Maria Luisa; Ganas de
Quedarte; Tumbalakatín; Remolino de Mar; Tumbao; Hasta Que Amanezca; A Mi Manera
Evoluci
By Plena Libre
Label: Times Square Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Mi Plena Es Libre; El Pa
Plena Libre: Evoluci
by AAJ Staff
To most of the world, the music of Puerto Rico is synonymous with salsa, the peppy, jazzed-up Afro-Caribbean music that surfaced in New York in the late '60s and sparked an enduring popular dance movement all its own. But the island is home for several other varieties of folkloric and popular music as well. (Strictly speaking, ...
Plena Libre:
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Plena Libre ¡Estamos gozando! Times Square Records 2004 In spite of the often quoted nationalistic blurbage found in liner notes, press releases, the printed press and even so-called scholarly sources, the bomba and plena genres aren't a sure fire formula for musical success, nor are they as popular ...
