Bakuleyé means in the language of the Yorubá religion: a cane that comes to wake up the deities in the vault. However if we see this in an abstract form we realize that this proverbial "cane " was taken by a group of Havanans to wake up popular Cuban music. New ideas!


This young group, that was founded in Havana in December of 1996, possesses musical potential that can be seen as evidences at one of their live shows. Latin jazz, boleros, ballads, bachatas, Cuban Songs and other influences are incorporated into an original style of Cuban Timba. Their sound can be described as the force of the Caribbean and Latin America, but mainly of Cuba. The bands leading author, Pedro Pablo Pérez Vargas, composes almost all the songs that this group interprets, always keeping in mind the essence of Cuban music and, starting from that point , fuses musical elements of other countries into the sound.


Pedro Pablo, director of BAKULEYÉ, was born in Santiago de Cuba and comes from a family of great sensibility. His father, a guitarist and composer, was the founder member of the Trova Santiaguera, and that fact presupposes , that during childhood, Pedro was surrounded by a musical atmosphere.

An ermpiric creator, very skilled when capturing his ideas, and with organizational experience and musical direction. He has been a guarantee that has worked for groups like Paulito y su Elite, Tamayo y su Salsa AM , among others.

In 1997 BAKULEYÉ gained the title of „More popular Nobel Orchestrates „,and that demonstrated their acceptance from the Cuban public.

Novel orchestrations, interesting lyrics, crisscross harmonies, and contagious melodies conform the sound of BAKULEYÉ, and that has turned out to be attractive for the followers of Cuban Popular Music.