The Icelandic word "rumba" (meaning "downpour") has an older and more striking relative in Megrelian language, where the verbal noun "rumbua" means "to pound forcefully."
This is where musical literacy comes into play—many people, raised on European and American "Latin" music, mistakenly believe that "rumba" refers to the soft, elegant ballroom dance.
Not at all.
True rumba—African and Cuban—is brutal drum polyrhythm. It’s raw percussion at machine-gun speed.
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