Viento De Agua

Viento De Agua

Genres: latin, plena, Puerto Rican, puerto rico

About Viento De Agua

Viento de Agua is a contemporary bomba and plena band, created in New York City in 1997. Bomba and plena are musical genres within the Afro Puerto Rican tradition. Their first album, De Puerto Rico al Mundo, was selected among the Top 10 Latin albums of the year by The New York Times. The band was created by Puerto Rican musicians Tito Matos (percussion, vocals, composer, arranger), Ricardo Pons (flute, saxs, arranger) and Alberto Toro (sax, arranger). It is a 13 member band that includes drums, bass and a powerful brass section. It has two published albums, one of them, Materia Prima (Raw Material) was produced by the Smithsonian Institution's music label Folkways. They have performed at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Celebrate Brooklyn and the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, among many other venues. The group's percussionists, led by Tito Matos, recorded Ricky Martin's hit "Pégate", the singer's only plena recording.

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Viento De Agua — Top 5 songs

Artist Song title Like / Dislike
Viento De Agua Ciudadano del Mundo
Viento De Agua Fiesta de Plena
Viento De Agua Las Batatas
Viento De Agua Pienso en ti
Viento De Agua Te Estas Haciendo
Ciudadano del Mundo
Fiesta de Plena
Las Batatas
Pienso en ti
Te Estas Haciendo