This album was nominated for the 45th Grammy as "Best Tropical Traditional Album" and for the 4th Latin Grammy as "Best Tropical Traditional Album" . It is a plena album, Puerto Rico's rhythm, fusioned with pwercussio, horns and vocal combined in...more.

If rap is, as Chuck D claimed, "the CNN of the streets," then Puerto Rico's Afro-derived plena is the Internet of the Antilles. Spawned in the 19th century, the genre features three tambourine-like pandero hand drums and topical...more.

If you are a Gringo, like I am, you relate explanations of Latin sounds to our own experience. So...,imagine the lazy backbeat of New Orlean's Second Line.. Mix in the raucos marching rhytm of Carnaval in Brazil. Add splashes...more.

Plena Libre are one of the true gems of Puerto Rican music and every time I hear them, they just get better and better. This latest disc is a knockout... although still not quite as good as seeing them live!