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== Summary ==
Lukumí sacred music encompasses song, drumming and related practices within Afro-Cuban religious communities associated with orisha devotion. It is a field of religious life rather than one commercial genre. Repertories, sequences and instrumental roles carry meanings understood through lineage, learning and ceremonial context. Public recordings can introduce part of that sound, but they do not confer authority to perform every ritual or make all knowledge freely interchangeable. The article offers musical orientation while recognizing that community practitioners determine the conditions of sacred practice. <ref name="new-sacred">[https://folkways.si.edu/matanzas-cuba-ca-1957-afro-cuban-sacred-music-from-the-countryside/latin-world/album/smithsonian Matanzas, Cuba, ca. 1957: Afro-Cuban Sacred Music from the Countryside — Smithsonian Folkways].</ref>

== Contemporary and trending ==
The music continues in religious houses and community networks, alongside public concerts, teaching and recordings that present selected materials. These settings overlap but are not identical. A stage arrangement may use a sacred song artistically without reproducing a ceremony, while a ceremony is not organized primarily for the pleasure of an outside audience. Migration has created durable communities beyond Cuba. Contemporary life includes new learners and changing circumstances, yet authority and knowledge cannot be inferred solely from technical instrumental skill or online visibility.

== History ==
The tradition developed through Yoruba-descended knowledge carried to Cuba under slavery and transformed within the island's religious and social conditions. Lineages maintained songs, ritual sequences and drum expertise across generations. Havana, Matanzas and surrounding regions developed locally distinctive practices, including differences between urban and rural settings. The recordings gathered by Lidia Cabrera and Josefina Tarafa preserve historically particular examples rather than a universal template for all Lukumí music. Later migration extended those relationships into new countries while keeping obligations to teachers and religious families significant. <ref name="new-sacred" />

== Musical characteristics ==
Call-and-response singing, repeated praise texts and carefully differentiated percussion roles are central to many settings. Batá ensembles use a family of double-headed drums whose parts interlock and converse, but Lukumí religious music is wider than batá alone. Changes of song and rhythm can have ceremonial significance beyond an outsider's perception of musical contrast. The voice leads through repertory knowledge, not merely through improvisational flair. Listening respectfully means recognizing that an attractive groove may also be addressing a specific orisha or marking a particular ritual relationship.

== Geography and communities ==
The principal mapped landscape connects western Cuban religious communities, including Havana, Matanzas and neighboring rural areas. A lighter eastern Cuban field recognizes broader transmission. Detached South Florida and New York/New Jersey fields represent enduring migrant religious and practitioner networks rather than generic enthusiasm for Afro-Cuban percussion. These circles do not locate private houses, reveal ritual sites or draw boundaries around believers. They provide a broad cultural orientation while keeping a public atlas separate from any claim to administer sacred community knowledge.

== Artists ==
Religious singers, drummers, elders and lineages are the appropriate starting points, with public documentation by performers such as Julito Collazo or Francisco Aguabella offering selected routes into the recorded sound. The Cabrera–Tarafa collections make the diversity of historical practice audible in principle, but a listener should read their context rather than treating a recording as permission or instruction. A commercial artist list alone would miss the collective and relational nature of expertise. Community authority matters even when an internationally known musician presents part of the repertory. <ref name="ga-cuba-folk">[https://folkways.si.edu/folk-music-of-cuba/world/music/album/smithsonian Folk Music of Cuba — UNESCO Collection / Smithsonian Folkways].</ref>

== Representative performances ==
These recordings offer listening examples of the genre. Notes identify the performance setting and any adaptation or mixed repertoire.

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| Lázaro Ros || Toques del Rezo de Eleggua || https://www.youtube.com/embed/lfV2yISumv0 || A distributed archival recording from Canta a Eleggua, representing publicly issued Lukumí devotional repertoire; the publication does not establish the circumstances of any underlying ceremony.<ref name="performance-lukumi-sacred-music-1">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfV2yISumv0 Lázaro Ros — Toques del Rezo de Eleggua]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref> || traditional || unknown || unknown || unknown || unknown || unknown || pending || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfV2yISumv0 Existing recording] || Legacy unscoped accepted recording retained; migration does not assert new dates or per-country variants. Existing musical notes and native citations are preserved.
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| Grupo Afrocuba de Matanzas || Elegguá — Havana 2023 || https://www.youtube.com/embed/5LWwI7qiI4g || A filmed ensemble presentation dedicated to Elegguá provides a performance counterpart to the archival recording; it is presented as documented public performance, not as instruction in religious practice.<ref name="performance-lukumi-sacred-music-2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LWwI7qiI4g Grupo Afrocuba de Matanzas — Elegguá — Havana 2023]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref> || traditional || unknown || unknown || unknown || unknown || unknown || pending || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LWwI7qiI4g Existing recording] || Legacy unscoped accepted recording retained; migration does not assert new dates or per-country variants. Existing musical notes and native citations are preserved.
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| Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba || Yoruba Iyesa (Oshun) - Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba || https://www.youtube.com/embed/EKrKLFTXfc0 || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Miguelito Leon. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Iyesa/Oshun musical choreography; source names Jane Aveille and Yandro Calderón as dancers, not the singers. Actual musical ensemble is credited. Video publication: 2025-07-06; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKrKLFTXfc0 Yoruba Iyesa (Oshun) - Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba].</ref> || traditional || unknown || unknown || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKrKLFTXfc0 Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Miguelito Leon. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Iyesa/Oshun musical choreography; source names Jane Aveille and Yandro Calderón as dancers, not the singers. Actual musical ensemble is credited.
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| Pogolotti batá ensemble (individual credits unspecified) || ORO SECO A OBATALA (pogoloti) || https://www.youtube.com/embed/3RfpmY_M8SA || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: la casa del fundamento . Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Video publication: 2024-04-05; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RfpmY_M8SA ORO SECO A OBATALA (pogoloti)].</ref> || traditional || unknown || unknown || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RfpmY_M8SA Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: la casa del fundamento . Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates.
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| Lukumí singers and batá drummers (individual credits unspecified) || Eshu Eleggua Performance , Cantos Yoruba , Baile de los Orishas , Bata drums || https://www.youtube.com/embed/ax0CW71oNw0 || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Mi Yalorde 💫. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Focused Eleggua sung/drummed dance performance; Mi Yalorde is the publisher, not an invented solo singer credit. Video publication: 2023-08-01; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax0CW71oNw0 Eshu Eleggua Performance , Cantos Yoruba , Baile de los Orishas , Bata drums].</ref> || traditional || unknown || unknown || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax0CW71oNw0 Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Mi Yalorde 💫. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Focused Eleggua sung/drummed dance performance; Mi Yalorde is the publisher, not an invented solo singer credit.
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| Obiní Batá || 1990 🙏🏽 ELEGUA LAROYE  ♥️  Elegbara ♥️  BATA DRUMS 🎵  Música Tradicional Yoruba || https://www.youtube.com/embed/RNuT9D8otLE || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Mi Yalorde 💫. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Source explicitly identifies Obiní Batá in the1990s; exact original date remains unknown rather than adopting a2023 publication date. Video publication: 2023-07-08; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNuT9D8otLE 1990 🙏🏽 ELEGUA LAROYE  ♥️  Elegbara ♥️  BATA DRUMS 🎵  Música Tradicional Yoruba].</ref> || traditional || unknown || unknown || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNuT9D8otLE Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Mi Yalorde 💫. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Source explicitly identifies Obiní Batá in the1990s; exact original date remains unknown rather than adopting a2023 publication date.
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| Yoruba Andabo || Oduduwa – Yoruba Andabo || https://www.youtube.com/embed/_UQpqXy9Ysw || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Ivor Miller. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2005-10. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Oduduwa at the Teatro Nacional; Ivor Miller is the publisher, not the vocalist. Video publication: 2023-05-29; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UQpqXy9Ysw Oduduwa – Yoruba Andabo].</ref> || traditional || unknown || 2005-10 || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UQpqXy9Ysw Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Ivor Miller. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2005-10. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Oduduwa at the Teatro Nacional; Ivor Miller is the publisher, not the vocalist.
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| Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba || Yemayá || https://www.youtube.com/embed/ykWLjRcdOV0 || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Individual original/session dates remain unspecified. Video publication: 2020-12-05; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykWLjRcdOV0 Yemayá].</ref> || traditional || unknown || unknown || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykWLjRcdOV0 Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Individual original/session dates remain unspecified.
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| ELEGGUA Afro Cuban Project; accompanying Lukumí musicians (individual credits unspecified) || Afro Cuban Project-OYA-(ELEGGUA Dance School ) || https://www.youtube.com/embed/XvTCAzdtgO4 || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: ELEGGUA ENTERTAINMENT. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2019-04-26. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Actual Cuba-Japan festival musical dance performance. School affiliation is not itself a lesson; Ryoko Ohara is the choreographer. Video publication: 2019-05-14; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvTCAzdtgO4 Afro Cuban Project-OYA-(ELEGGUA Dance School )].</ref> || traditional || unknown || 2019-04-26 || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvTCAzdtgO4 Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: ELEGGUA ENTERTAINMENT. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2019-04-26. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Actual Cuba-Japan festival musical dance performance. School affiliation is not itself a lesson; Ryoko Ohara is the choreographer.
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| Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba || Ochun - Conjunto Folkorico Nacional / El Gran Palenque - Sabado de la Rumba (3.3.2018) || https://www.youtube.com/embed/j8sUXKz-pP4 || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Cubana Ljubljana. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2018-03-03. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Distinct Ochun and Oya works at El Gran Palenque; not duplicate views of the same piece. Video publication: 2018-03-05; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8sUXKz-pP4 Ochun - Conjunto Folkorico Nacional / El Gran Palenque - Sabado de la Rumba (3.3.2018)].</ref> || traditional || unknown || 2018-03-03 || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8sUXKz-pP4 Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Cubana Ljubljana. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2018-03-03. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Distinct Ochun and Oya works at El Gran Palenque; not duplicate views of the same piece.
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| Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba || Oya - Conjunto Folkorico Nacional / El Gran Palenque - Sabado de la Rumba (3.3.2018) || https://www.youtube.com/embed/2zbl9JKmetw || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Cubana Ljubljana. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2018-03-03. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Distinct Ochun and Oya works at El Gran Palenque; not duplicate views of the same piece. Video publication: 2018-03-05; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zbl9JKmetw Oya - Conjunto Folkorico Nacional / El Gran Palenque - Sabado de la Rumba (3.3.2018)].</ref> || traditional || unknown || 2018-03-03 || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zbl9JKmetw Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Cubana Ljubljana. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2018-03-03. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Distinct Ochun and Oya works at El Gran Palenque; not duplicate views of the same piece.
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| Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba || Oya.conjunto folklorico nacional || https://www.youtube.com/embed/SV4yHEUmRRk || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: marco timbamaniak. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Individual original/session dates remain unspecified. Video publication: 2017-12-23; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV4yHEUmRRk Oya.conjunto folklorico nacional].</ref> || traditional || unknown || unknown || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV4yHEUmRRk Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: marco timbamaniak. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Individual original/session dates remain unspecified.
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| Christian Martinek and Lukumí singers; Yusimi Moya Rodríguez (dance) || Orisha Oya Dance from Cuba || https://www.youtube.com/embed/IbdkrZ6H0no || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Yusimi Moya Rodriguez. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Newly recorded batá/vocal soundtrack for choreography. Source calls the dance Oya but identifies the musical songs as Oshun; preserve that distinction instead of silently treating dancer and singer as the same role. Video publication: 2017-12-04; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbdkrZ6H0no Orisha Oya Dance from Cuba].</ref> || traditional || unknown || unknown || music-video || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbdkrZ6H0no Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Yusimi Moya Rodriguez. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Newly recorded batá/vocal soundtrack for choreography. Source calls the dance Oya but identifies the musical songs as Oshun; preserve that distinction instead of silently treating dancer and singer as the same role.
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| Omo Abillona: Andrés Alain Medina Monteagudo; Daylon Gordon Urgelles; Alberto Elejalde Bonilla; Yester Luis Anaya Soublet || Cuba &#124; Batá Drums of the Cuban Santería &#124; Ensemble Omo Abillona &#124; Meta for the Oricha Changó || https://www.youtube.com/embed/qYqY8x3U9MA || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2016-11-10. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Distinct musical excerpts Meta for Changó and Orun cantado, from the primary Cini event programme. The cameraman/research adviser are not the musicians. Video publication: 2017-04-22; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYqY8x3U9MA Cuba &#124; Batá Drums of the Cuban Santería &#124; Ensemble Omo Abillona &#124; Meta for the Oricha Changó].</ref> || traditional || unknown || 2016-11-10 || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYqY8x3U9MA Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2016-11-10. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Distinct musical excerpts Meta for Changó and Orun cantado, from the primary Cini event programme. The cameraman/research adviser are not the musicians.
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| Omo Abillona: Andrés Alain Medina Monteagudo; Daylon Gordon Urgelles; Alberto Elejalde Bonilla; Yester Luis Anaya Soublet || Cuba &#124; Batá Drums of the Cuban Santería &#124; Ensemble Omo Abillona &#124; Orun Cantado || https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wi67Bj95Tfw || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2016-11-10. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Distinct musical excerpts Meta for Changó and Orun cantado, from the primary Cini event programme. The cameraman/research adviser are not the musicians. Video publication: 2017-04-22; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi67Bj95Tfw Cuba &#124; Batá Drums of the Cuban Santería &#124; Ensemble Omo Abillona &#124; Orun Cantado].</ref> || traditional || unknown || 2016-11-10 || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi67Bj95Tfw Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2016-11-10. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Distinct musical excerpts Meta for Changó and Orun cantado, from the primary Cini event programme. The cameraman/research adviser are not the musicians.
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| Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba || Oddudua || https://www.youtube.com/embed/o15Aqq5yV0o || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba - Topic. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Distributor release date: 2003-04-14; reissue dates do not establish the original session. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Distinct works from Musica Yoruba; conflicting2003 release/2007 phonogram data do not establish the original recording date. Video publication: 2017-03-11; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o15Aqq5yV0o Oddudua].</ref> || traditional || unknown || unknown || audio || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o15Aqq5yV0o Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba - Topic. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Distributor release date: 2003-04-14; reissue dates do not establish the original session. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Distinct works from Musica Yoruba; conflicting2003 release/2007 phonogram data do not establish the original recording date.
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| Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba || Chango || https://www.youtube.com/embed/0EEOfzVl7mk || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba - Topic. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Distributor release date: 2003-04-14; reissue dates do not establish the original session. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Distinct works from Musica Yoruba; conflicting2003 release/2007 phonogram data do not establish the original recording date. Video publication: 2017-03-11; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EEOfzVl7mk Chango].</ref> || traditional || unknown || unknown || audio || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EEOfzVl7mk Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba - Topic. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Distributor release date: 2003-04-14; reissue dates do not establish the original session. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Distinct works from Musica Yoruba; conflicting2003 release/2007 phonogram data do not establish the original recording date.
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| Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba || Orula || https://www.youtube.com/embed/PAha9xQ55kQ || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba - Topic. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Distributor release date: 2003-04-14; reissue dates do not establish the original session. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Distinct works from Musica Yoruba; conflicting2003 release/2007 phonogram data do not establish the original recording date. Video publication: 2017-03-11; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAha9xQ55kQ Orula].</ref> || traditional || unknown || unknown || audio || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAha9xQ55kQ Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba - Topic. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Distributor release date: 2003-04-14; reissue dates do not establish the original session. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Distinct works from Musica Yoruba; conflicting2003 release/2007 phonogram data do not establish the original recording date.
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| London Lucumí Choir; Yosvani Díaz || Cantos a Los Orishas Obba Y Asojano || https://www.youtube.com/embed/KPShvW_h6O0 || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: London Lucumi Choir. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual live studio vocal/drum recording beneath a photo/video collage. Cuban-derived Lukumí repertoire in London; a collage is not an instructional lecture. Video publication: 2017-02-25; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPShvW_h6O0 Cantos a Los Orishas Obba Y Asojano].</ref> || traditional || unknown || unknown || audio || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPShvW_h6O0 Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: London Lucumi Choir. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual live studio vocal/drum recording beneath a photo/video collage. Cuban-derived Lukumí repertoire in London; a collage is not an instructional lecture.
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| Callejón de Hamel folkloric singers and drummers (individual credits unspecified) || Yemaya, Oya, Oshun, Shango @ Callejon de Hamel, la Habana 2016 || https://www.youtube.com/embed/oBC8eK-G0GI || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Inga S. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2016-05-08. Distinct full Yemaya/Oya/Ochun/Chango sequence from the named Havana venue; publisher is not substituted for musicians. Video publication: 2016-05-28; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBC8eK-G0GI Yemaya, Oya, Oshun, Shango @ Callejon de Hamel, la Habana 2016].</ref> || traditional || unknown || 2016-05-08 || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBC8eK-G0GI Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Inga S. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2016-05-08. Distinct full Yemaya/Oya/Ochun/Chango sequence from the named Havana venue; publisher is not substituted for musicians.
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| Abbilona; Irián López Rodríguez || 02 Abbilona - Eleggua [Sunlightsquare Records] || https://www.youtube.com/embed/oR5nmLpq2DI || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Claudio aka Sunlightsquare. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2012-11. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Eleggua from Masters of Batá, recorded at ICRT Havana in November2012.2015 release and label producers are separate from the actual ensemble/session. Video publication: 2015-10-09; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR5nmLpq2DI 02 Abbilona - Eleggua [Sunlightsquare Records]].</ref> || traditional || unknown || 2012-11 || audio || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR5nmLpq2DI Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Claudio aka Sunlightsquare. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2012-11. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Eleggua from Masters of Batá, recorded at ICRT Havana in November2012.2015 release and label producers are separate from the actual ensemble/session.
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| Sexto Sentido || Sexto Sentido - CANTO A ELEGGUÁ (FULL HD) || https://www.youtube.com/embed/clMg33x1_e4 || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Sexto Sentido. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Primary ensemble explicitly identifies its new vocal arrangement of the Lukumí Canto a Elegguá. Contemporary vocal adaptation is retained and labelled. Video publication: 2014-09-27; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clMg33x1_e4 Sexto Sentido - CANTO A ELEGGUÁ (FULL HD)].</ref> || traditional || unknown || unknown || music-video || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clMg33x1_e4 Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Sexto Sentido. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Primary ensemble explicitly identifies its new vocal arrangement of the Lukumí Canto a Elegguá. Contemporary vocal adaptation is retained and labelled.
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| Centro Yoruba singers and batá ensemble (individual credits unspecified) || Canto a Ochosi || https://www.youtube.com/embed/wD_ZHJtcftM || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Centro Yoruba. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Video publication: 2014-02-24; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD_ZHJtcftM Canto a Ochosi].</ref> || traditional || unknown || unknown || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD_ZHJtcftM Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Centro Yoruba. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates.
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| Regla Ochun ceremonial singers and drummers (individual credits unspecified) || Ochun, Santeria || https://www.youtube.com/embed/3DkepJNapBM || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Anibal Lopez. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Actual Santería musical performance in Regla, Havana. Aníbal López is the publisher; musical performers are not individually identified. Video publication: 2014-01-12; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DkepJNapBM Ochun, Santeria].</ref> || traditional || unknown || unknown || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DkepJNapBM Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Anibal Lopez. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Actual Santería musical performance in Regla, Havana. Aníbal López is the publisher; musical performers are not individually identified.
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| Grupo Enitilukikan; Christian Martinek; Yusimi Moya Rodríguez (dance) || Orisha Yemaya Dance from Cuba || https://www.youtube.com/embed/vwR1V5w_KB8 || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Yusimi Moya Rodriguez. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Continuous Yemaya batá/bembé and singing, a complete musical dance demonstration rather than spoken instruction. Video publication: 2013-12-30; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwR1V5w_KB8 Orisha Yemaya Dance from Cuba].</ref> || traditional || unknown || unknown || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwR1V5w_KB8 Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Yusimi Moya Rodriguez. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Continuous Yemaya batá/bembé and singing, a complete musical dance demonstration rather than spoken instruction.
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| Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba || Yemaya, Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba || https://www.youtube.com/embed/UBntlLmHoFc || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: xareu. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2013-06. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Individual original/session dates remain unspecified. Video publication: 2013-08-18; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBntlLmHoFc Yemaya, Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba].</ref> || traditional || unknown || 2013-06 || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBntlLmHoFc Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: xareu. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2013-06. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Individual original/session dates remain unspecified.
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| Ricardo “Santa Cruz” Gómez Ribeiro; Pedro Pablo and accompanying drummer || Canto De Shango - Ricardo "Santa Cruz" Gómez || https://www.youtube.com/embed/RJryUQu9_yw || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Boogalu Productions. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2007. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Complete focused musical item from Cantos, filmed at the Almendares in2007, rather than spoken instruction.2013 publication is not the session date. Video publication: 2013-07-03; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJryUQu9_yw Canto De Shango - Ricardo "Santa Cruz" Gómez].</ref> || traditional || unknown || 2007 || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJryUQu9_yw Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Boogalu Productions. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2007. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Complete focused musical item from Cantos, filmed at the Almendares in2007, rather than spoken instruction.2013 publication is not the session date.
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| Michael “Lukumi” Herrera Duarte; Dominic Kirk; Yosvani Díaz || ORO SECO - 'Lukumi', Dominic Kirk, Yosvani. La Habana, 2013 || https://www.youtube.com/embed/OGUtrS0RhhI || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Dominic Kirk. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2013-01-15. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Individual original/session dates remain unspecified. Video publication: 2013-05-06; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGUtrS0RhhI ORO SECO - 'Lukumi', Dominic Kirk, Yosvani. La Habana, 2013].</ref> || traditional || unknown || 2013-01-15 || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGUtrS0RhhI Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Dominic Kirk. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2013-01-15. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Individual original/session dates remain unspecified.
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| Victoria “Vicky” Jassey and batá ensemble || Iyesa - Cantos para los Orichas || https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wn5R98w9PuM || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Victoria Jassey. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2012. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Actual sung/played Iyesa recital at SOAS, not an academic lecture. Jassey sings and plays itótele. Video publication: 2012-10-14; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn5R98w9PuM Iyesa - Cantos para los Orichas].</ref> || traditional || unknown || 2012 || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn5R98w9PuM Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Victoria Jassey. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2012. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Actual sung/played Iyesa recital at SOAS, not an academic lecture. Jassey sings and plays itótele.
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| Obiní Batá || Grupo Ibini doing Bata at Jardin De Gordo.MP4 || https://www.youtube.com/embed/SIINHT-vaBY || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: David Bradish. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Source title spells the ensemble Ibini; actual women’s batá performance at Jardín de Gordo, not an instruction clip. Video publication: 2012-05-12; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIINHT-vaBY Grupo Ibini doing Bata at Jardin De Gordo.MP4].</ref> || traditional || unknown || unknown || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIINHT-vaBY Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: David Bradish. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Source title spells the ensemble Ibini; actual women’s batá performance at Jardín de Gordo, not an instruction clip.
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| Yoruba Andabo || Yoruba Andabo - Shango || https://www.youtube.com/embed/JcXxK2c6y2c || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Cantos Yoruba (Alejandro Ayaguna). Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Individual original/session dates remain unspecified. Video publication: 2011-11-14; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcXxK2c6y2c Yoruba Andabo - Shango].</ref> || traditional || unknown || unknown || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcXxK2c6y2c Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Cantos Yoruba (Alejandro Ayaguna). Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Individual original/session dates remain unspecified.
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| Batá Inle || Bata Inle open Arts Festival || https://www.youtube.com/embed/4tQUzc-ISu4 || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Baba Mike. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2010. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Ensemble’s batá festival salute to Legba and Ogun at St Louis; diaspora performance retains its documented repertoire context. Video publication: 2010-06-01; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tQUzc-ISu4 Bata Inle open Arts Festival].</ref> || traditional || unknown || 2010 || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tQUzc-ISu4 Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Baba Mike. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2010. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Ensemble’s batá festival salute to Legba and Ogun at St Louis; diaspora performance retains its documented repertoire context.
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| Yoruba Andabo || Wemilere de Yoruba Andabo - Teatro National || https://www.youtube.com/embed/CPngw6znGP8 || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Ismaray Aspirina. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2007. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Wemilere musical sequence with separately named dancers; no full2007 show is also counted. Video publication: 2010-01-30; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPngw6znGP8 Wemilere de Yoruba Andabo - Teatro National].</ref> || traditional || unknown || 2007 || live || unknown || country:Cuba || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPngw6znGP8 Recording/context source] || Reviewed Lukumí sacred music musical recording. Source: Ismaray Aspirina. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2007. Afro-Cuban Lukumí sacred/folkloric musical repertoire, not generic Nigerian Yoruba music or Christian gospel. Wemilere musical sequence with separately named dancers; no full2007 show is also counted.
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== Related genres ==
[[Rumba cubana]] shares some practitioners and broader Afro-Cuban environments but is not a substitute label for religious music. [[Timba]], [[Salsa]] and [[Latin jazz]] have drawn on sacred songs and rhythms in artistic settings, where the reference can carry several meanings. Related orisha traditions in Brazil and elsewhere have their own histories and authorities; a shared African-derived vocabulary does not make all practices identical. The distinction between religious field, public repertory and artistic borrowing keeps those relationships intelligible.

=== References and further reading ===
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== Hotspot mushrooms ==
Western Cuba is a connected religious-lineage landscape, with lighter island transmission and detached migrant communities. Broad fields avoid private-site disclosure and do not confuse percussion fandom with religious practice.

These fields are editorial illustrations of musical affinity and cultural reach, not listener statistics. Radius marks the zero edge of the fade; overlapping fields of this genre combine by maximum.

{| class="wikitable muglobe-hotspots"
|+ MuGlobe hotspot mushrooms
! ID !! Location !! Latitude !! Longitude !! Radius (km) !! Strength !! Notes

|-
| lukumi-sacred-music-western-cuba || Western Cuban Lukumí community and lineage landscape || 22.6 || -81.2 || 430 || 1 || Connects Havana, Matanzas and surrounding religious communities, not private addresses.

|-
| lukumi-sacred-music-eastern-cuba || Eastern Cuban Lukumí transmission landscape || 20.9 || -76.5 || 380 || 0.65 || Lighter island community continuity.

|-
| lukumi-sacred-music-south-florida || South Florida Lukumí migrant community landscape || 25.85 || -80.35 || 190 || 0.8 || Detached durable religious and practitioner network.

|-
| lukumi-sacred-music-new-york-new-jersey || New York–New Jersey Afro-Cuban religious communities || 40.7 || -74 || 200 || 0.65 || Detached lineage and practitioner network, not generic Latin music activity.

|}