For Maurice “Tito” Sanabria, seeing performers dressed in white, beating out plena rhythms on hand-held drums last weekend at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show had an emotional impact on the musician.
“I was so proud to see plena on the world stage,” Sanabria said. “To see it on screen, a traditional art that was kept alive through oral tradition from one generation to another, just teaching and practicing it, persevering, to see that on the world stage was, wow, a very proud moment.”
As the co-founder of Kadencia, a local salsa, plena and bomba orchestra, Sanabria performs to not only keep the musical traditions of Puerto Rico alive but to share and explain the music and history to a wider audience…