Amy Toensing

National Geographic: Puerto Rico

A woman sways to bomba music at El Ambbique bar in Loiza. The heavily percussive music originated more than two centuries ago with enslaved Africans brought to Puerto Rico to work the sugar plantations.
A woman sways to bomba music at El Ambbique bar in Loiza. The heavily percussive music originated more than two centuries ago with enslaved Africans brought to Puerto Rico to work the sugar plantations.