Puerto Rican Music
Puerto Rico's musical culture stems from a combination of African percussions and Spanish ballads and poetry. The Jibaro is the country's music, formed in great part by Decimas. Boleros are a style of romatic ballad combined with the African beat, and the Danzas are more in the style of a waltz, but also with the pervading Afro rhythm. The Bomba, of African origin, and the Plena, of Taino origin, are forms of music and dance using a variety of percussion instruments. Plenas in particular were used to pass on information and knowledge in a skit-like manner.
Traditional instruments used in the interpretation of Puerto Rican music include several adaptations of the Spanish guitar such as the requinto, the cuatro, triple and bordonua. Some of the instruments stem from the native Taino; these include a hollowed gourd marked with notches called the güiro. Puerto Rican music also uses a variety of drums and other percussion instruments, among which figure the subidor and tambor - small and large drums made out of hollow trunk and animal skins, and the maracas, hollow gourds filled with seeds or small stones.
Notable Puerto Rican musicians, interpreters and Salsero groups include Jose Feliciano ( "Cheo"), pianist and composer Roberto
Sierra, Ray Barreto 
