When I returned to Puerto Rico in 2018, I went to a gathering at Terraza de Bonanza in Santurce. “The drums summoned me,” I told a friend. My heart felt as if the beat of those barriles and ...

"I hear the Bamba drums and then I jumped to the Bamba ... She and her husband, Omar, who also performs in Bomba Marilé, lived in Puerto Rico until Hurricane Maria devastated the island.