Kumina in Rio Grande Valley, Portland, Jamaica Kuminah

[chakachocolate]

blessings my people

[pbg98pbgpbg98pbg]

ok so we are soopposet to believe thise people are rastafarian nd in jamaica???? I am not falling for it...its too dark to tell!!!!

[pusifut]

@pbg98pbgpbg98pbg This is considered Kumina music my dear not Rastafarian even though Rastafarian borrowed certain things of it. Look it up.

[omishmunkey]

I am a Rastafarian living in Atlanta, Georgia. I love this video. I got to witness a rasta tribe in Jamaica. You guys give me hope that one day I will be a part of one of these gloriously cultural experiences. Rasta.

[maaruz1979]

bless-ed jamaica; don't ever lose i and i culture; teach the yutes

[ofradin]

I n I give thanks for your feedback.

[586318]

i remember goin to the little theatre in kingston to dance kumina and tamboo....from i was in all age school up unitl high school...now i live in canada..i really miss those daiiz

[aseifa77]

I'm in America (no links to the Caribbean, sorry) and I show my kids the kumina all the time. My husband has a video called Caribbean Crucible that I think my Island brethren would enjoy watching (if you can find it). That's where I first learned of the kumina and I also learned that America did a good job of squashing any Africanity we blacks born in America tried to retain.

[jstuttgart]

Sweat music

any links with brukkings?

[ofradin]

Yes its also traditional dancing that lives in the Rio GRande River Valley area... I LOVE bruckins, and Dinki Mini, I wish I had video of that too.

[LoveMusicBad]

Did I hear de lady seh: Di belly a nuh fi yu?

[beautyfullone01]

This same African retention and link in music ; search YouTube: Afro Dominican Palo Drumming in Villa Mella

they both have the same rhythm!! its amazing how forward and dominant the African musical retentions are!!!

[jayson19898]

im 24 an dance kumina as we do from the east of jamaica st thomas! the young ones need to learn their roots

[LoveMusicBad]

So true. I love my roots. I was just playing this and my 13 yo nephew put his fingers in his ears. I told him, "Yu fi know yu roots and love yu roots, bwaay." Of course i was dancing away. My favourite night at Festival is Folkfest. Kumina, Revival. Gereh, Brukins, andall the others.

[6969aaaaa]

Its about time someone put up a clips showing our real culture instead of all the nastiness people think is our culture! Thank you and please put up more if you have it.

[LoveMusicBad]

Couldn't agree more

[blaaaaze]

all of it is our culture...alll of it. what you called nastiness can be seen on colourful art drawn on pyramids thousands of years ago.

[pusifut]

LONG LIVE AFRICA IN JAMAICA... JAH KNOW! its a pity the younger generation ignorant to this...mento, jankonoo and all dem ting deh

[LoveMusicBad]

Yup. See my reply to Jayson19898

[blaaaaze]

that is the fault of the older generations which bred the younger ones and raised them . So let us realize that any lack of knowledge of self is to be blamed on the older generation.these kids should not have been allowed to grow themselves or grow in some foreign fantasy.

[SuperConejo]

Long Live Kongo, this sounds alot like Puertorican Bomba, they have the same origins, kongo. Reminds me of alot of kongo-derived music. Wankila Bantu! (African Humanity)

[beautyfullone01]

i had the same revelation when i went to college and attended a BOMBA performance.... the drums of the Kongo link us throughout the diaspora... also Palo Conga from the Dominican Republic... its all the same.. AFRICA u r the link!!!u are the Mother to all of us

[LoveMusicBad]

For as you well know many of our Caribbean countries share a similar history due to the transatlantic slave trade.

[hultonclint]

Precise links to a Kongo tradition have been established for this. Bilby and Fu-Kiau have done a study ...I think they say the parent tradition is Kongo "Kumunu," for entertainment functions.

[CF201]

Hell yeah its sound similar to bomba now I dont know which rythm not holandes but probably sica or a guembe. They need incorporate these rythms in reggae more. Tego does it with his type of reggaeton. No wonder why boricuas could rock that reggaeton stuff cause of the rythms originate from Congo. "Si no tiene de Congo tiene Carabali y si no tiene Dinga tiene Mandinga". CF

[fyabun]

Actually Kumina music is inside the rhythms of Reggae. Its hard to hear in these recordings because you can't hear the bass. But the Fundi (bass drum) has had it basic rhythm transferred to the bass guitar and the repeater (high drum) rhythms are played by the guitar. I do agree though that reggae should put more emphasis on the roots part of the sound. So much power and energy

[CF201]

Yeah Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica share a similar heritage African, Taino and European but one element that binds us together is Congo and the Yoruba. Peep these links: watch?v=vjQfgbAmozQ

watch?v=woAnfbfzAdU

this is the Puerto Rico they dont tell you about roughly 40 - 50% of the present population has African blood in their veins from one degree to another.

[fyabun]

I forgot to say that in some parts of Jamaica people in the kumina tradition speak a lanuage called ki congo. there is also in Kumina and maroon tradition a song which says "cungo (Congo) man mi afi tan ya - oh cungo man afi tan ya. lamenting the inforced journey from Africa with no hope of return.

[CF201]

You are right Congo rythms transplanted in the Caribbean are very distinct. The percussion is more base like. Another instrument that our countries have shared (Puerto Rico and Jamaica) is the Marimbola. Though that instrument may have its origins in Cuba. I think Cuba has the most interesting African presence than all of the Caribbean.

[abukani]

lol thats why u guys look so good...ur all mixed and look different from the latinos from the mainland

[vybzsport]

this is my home town

[neenush]

omg this is my hometown!!

[farrahdavis]

the white men try to outlaw this druming, but it reach, it reach dem can't tap wi. love to my jamaican people and to my ever present ancestors

[abukani]

nuff respect...bout time

[sherizzle]

big up to wi cultural background!!!!