The Music of Puerto Rico
February 17, 2011 - 11:28am | by mtorrescarmona
I’ve been surrounded by music at an early age growing up in Puerto Rico, music played daily throughout the neighborhood, several family members were musicians and Mother would sing the ballads of her childhood in Cuba. By the age of ten I began developing an ear for rhythms, soon my surroundings began serving as instruments. There were bands in almost every neighborhood and every Sunday, two blocks from my house in Ponce, the 2nd largest band in Puerto Rico, La Sonora Ponceńa, rehearsed every Sunday.
