Los Papines has been played on NTS shows including Charlie Dark, with Para Que Niegas? first played on 6 January 2017.

Ambassadors of the Rumba

Los Papines, a five-member ensemble, celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2003. Today, in late January 2009, Irina Echarry reports direct from Havana that the "Abreu family brings their rumba to the Casa de la Cultura in the Havana municipality of Plaza the third Sunday each month and everyone is invited with no charge.

"I went last Sunday and Los Papines, comprised of Luis, Ricardo, Jesus, Luisito and Juliet Abreu managed to get everybody’s shoulders and hips moving. The chorus of one…