
Tumbao
9/2/2021 | 26m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
The neo-Latin jazz band Tumbao's energy will make you want to dance!
A neo-Latin jazz band, Tumbao brings their energy to make you want to dance. Blending rhythms and sounds from salsa, bossa, and cambia with funk, jazz, and R&B, you can't help but to want to move for this episode of Music at the Museum.
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Tumbao
9/2/2021 | 26m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
A neo-Latin jazz band, Tumbao brings their energy to make you want to dance. Blending rhythms and sounds from salsa, bossa, and cambia with funk, jazz, and R&B, you can't help but to want to move for this episode of Music at the Museum.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> Welcome to Music at the Museum coming to you from the galleries at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh.
We're proud to be the home of the people's art collection.
Presented with PBS NC and Come Hear NC, this musical series show cases North Carolina bands that represent our state's rich musical landscape.
The artists you'll enjoy today share their stories through music.
Join us now from the North Carolina Museum of Art in celebrating their sound and supporting their work.
[dramatic music] - Quality public television is made possible through the financial contributions of viewers like you, who invite you to join them in supporting PBS NC.
[energetic music] - Live right here from the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, North Carolina, we are Tumbao.
Today, our music also pays homage to the indigenous people that lived here before we did, Tuscarora, Waccamaw, Lumbee.
[energetic music continues] [singing in foreign language] [energetic music continues] [energetic music continues] [singing in foreign language] [energetic music] [speaks in foreign language] [energetic music continues] [energetic music continues] [singing in foreign language] ♪ Hey [energetic music continues] This next song we wrote about not fitting in, [gentle music] about being in spaces where sometimes you feel like you're not wanted.
But you always got to make space for yourself.
You got to take back space, that's what, that's it's all about [singing in foreign language] [energetic music] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [energetic music continues] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [audience applauds] Whoo.
Man, don't let anybody ever tell you that you don't fit somewhere.
We all belong, we all belong.
We all belong in every space.
This song, [gentle music] this song was written a long, very, very, very long, long, long, long time ago.
And the land where I'm from, in Peru, is a song about love and betrayal, and all those fun, interesting aspects of life we all know about.
[gentle music continues] [singing in foreign language] [energetic music] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [energetic music continues] Ooh.
[speaks in foreign language] [audience applauds] I don't know whether cumbia is from Columbia, Mexico or all around the world, man, this cumbia is just a different flavor.
y'all gotta get your cumbia vaccine.
[band members laughing] - [Band Member] I got the cumbia bad.
- [Lead Singer] You got the cumbia!
[upbeat music] This next one is our last song and it's called [speaks in foreign language], which means just chilling.
So if you're at home watching this somewhere, this songs for you.
[laughs] It's been great being here tonight.
It's been great being here at the North Carolina Museum of Art.
Thank you, PBS, thank you NCMA, Thank you, everyone who's involved.
in the making of this series.
"Music at the Museum," highlighting the great series' of North Carolina and around.
Thank you very much, we are Tumbao.
[energetic music] [energetic music continues] [singing in foreign language] Thank you very much, we are Tumbao.
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