Alma Moyó is an Afro-Boricua musical group dedicated to the preservation of Puerto Rico’s oldest living African musical and cultural tradition, la bomba.
Founded in 2002, under the musical direction of Alexander Vale LaSalle from Moca, Puerto Rico, the group’s 13 members are a talented mix of musicians, educators and historians dedicated to empowering people of the African Diaspora by sharing Borinquen’s potent legacy of bomba music.
Bringing together different generations of Puerto Rican
and Caribbean musicians, Alma Moyó represents the next movement in pan-Caribbean musical expression.
Dedicated primarily to preserving and promoting awareness of the vast diversity that exists within the Afro-Puerto Rican bomba tradition, Alma Moyó seeks to honor the multi-root origin of bomba, by honoring the unique fusion of African and Afro- Caribbean elements that blend to create bomba on the island of Puerto Rico.
Inspired by the master musicians and artisans of Puerto Rico and its diaspora who lovingly preserve the Afro-Boricua traditions of bomba and plena, Alma Moyó was born in the celebrated Rincon Criollo Cultural Center in the Bronx, NY affectionately known as “La Casita de Chema”.
