YaYa: Salve video by DennisFlores.com

YAYA is a women's collective dedicated to preserving and promoting the rich, cultural legacies and African-based musical traditions of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Founded in 2002, Yaya honors the vibrant musical heritage represented in Puerto Rican bomba and Dominican salve traditions, through live performances, workshops, and female-led creative ciphers. Recognizing the contributions of women in preserving and transmitting these traditions, Yaya honors the yayas (Creole/Kongo origin), or mothers, who have helped shape our histories, traditions and legacies of resistance.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bomba
• Plena
• Salve
• Puerto
• Rico
• Santo
• Domingo
• Dominican
• Republic
• Creole
• Kongo

[raquelzrivera]

Thanks for all that great feedback! The group is called Yaya. The music we are playing here is salves from the Dominican Republic. The other music genre that Yaya specializes in is bomba from Puerto Rico. (See our videos "Yaya te canta" and "Que Triste.") The group is New York based. The ethnicities of the women in this video as: 4 Puerto Ricans, 3 Dominicans, 1 Puerto Rican/Jewish, 1 Puerto Rican/Panamanian.

[aybendito22]

Much respect to these women for preserving such gifts. May God Bless. I loved it, coming from a Boricua bomba and plena phanatic. Long live my brothers and sisters in la Republica Dominicana.

[Ravenelvenlady]

I just love these women. Me encanta, mucho. Gracias a estas mujeres!

[zerkiakdei]

Me encanta.... Quisiera saber de que pais del caribe es ese grupo

[ortiz609]

hay algo expesial

[ortiz609]

esplicame que es eso

[Cachaito]

Viva la cultura negra de nuestros países.

[nubiannectar]

Truly Beautiful !!! I wish more youth in America would at least embrace their Arikkan Culture.

Nubiannectar