1A rhythmic dance with Spanish and African elements, originating in Cuba.

1. 1.1 A piece of music for the rumba or in a similar style.
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   • Yet such is his talent, the quality of the music seems almost effortless, and he is equally comfortable singing mambo, cha cha, ballads and rumba.
   • Culturally, our riches extend far beyond the celebrated African- and Spanish-influenced rhythms of calypso, reggae, dancehall, salsa, rumba, merengue, or son.
   • It has a unique rhumba sound that calls for a performance rather than just singing.
   • The most popular sound is rumba music from the Congo, but there is an appreciation of the traditional tribal songs and sounds.
   • Overweight barmen slosh mojitos on the counter at great haste and orders are shouted against a backdrop of salsa and rumba.
   • Blanche turns on the radio and begins to dance to a rumba that is playing.
   • The South African and the Democratic Republic of Congo flags fly side-by-side in an open space where a band is strumming rumba tunes, getting ready to rock the crowd seated under green umbrellas.
   • The most popular music in Africa in the XXth century was Soukous, derived from the Cuban rumba.
   • Other influences on popular music include church music, gospel, Zairean rhumba, and South African mbaqanga and mbube.
   • It sounds like a wild street party featuring a Latin percussion band whose bells, shakers, electric piano, and flute combine to create an infectious rumba groove.
   • All the while, I'd be serenaded by the musicians in the street, who continue the long-standing tradition that has given the world rhumba, mambo, and son.
   • The bass piano keys and bass combine for a duet that suggests a rumba feel.
   • The project has formed a band which fuses reggae, African rhythm, calypso, rhumba and rock.
   • Ten piece band Havana Che, the result of a collaboration between the best Cuban and Irish musicians playing Latin music in the country, will provide the swinging salsa and rumba soundtrack for the evening.
   • The Latin American community is once again geared up for an evening of sequins, salsa dancers and rumba beats.
   • He described the Portuguese lament as a rumba with a tango bridge.
   • The first volume concentrated on eight West African countries, but this second selection is an entirely Congolese mixture of rumba roots and early soukous.
   • The 11-track album has some of the smooth rhumba songs that brings out the musical and singing prowess of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's most celebrated musical ensembles.
   • The energetic quartet fuses rap and hip hop with traditional rumba, son and guaguanco, embodying the future of socially conscious music in Latin America.
   • A virtuoso pianist, he taps not only Cuban rumba and yanqui jazz but digs deeper into his African heritage.
   • The group will perform music from the new album, United We Stand, a flavoured sound that ranges in style from rumba to classic adaptations of old mbira rhythms.
   • Archipelago is a rhumba that was later reworked into the composer's Second Symphony as its third movement.
2. 1.2 A ballroom dance imitative of the rumba.
   they glide around the dance floor doing the cha-cha, rumba, or waltz

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   • Some of the better dancers among the youngsters are experts not only in folk and traditional dances, but also in ballroom dances like foxtrot, quickstep, waltz and tango, to say nothing of Latin dances such as rumba, samba, jive and salsa.
   • The waltz, foxtrot, tango and quickstep are danced in rapid-fire succession in each ballroom round while salsa steps up the beat to let Latin competitors loosen up a little and go through the paces of the rhumba, samba and cha cha.
   • Within each category there are dance styles such as waltz, mambo, cha-cha, and rumba.
   • O'Dougherty likes Latin dances like the rhumba and O'Connor enjoys the tango romantica.
   • Each school can provide five pairs (plus one alternate) to dance in five different styles: swing, the tango, the rumba, the merengue, and the foxtrot.
   • Throughout the room, neon signs flash to announce the upcoming dance style: fox trot, triple swing, mambo, cha cha, tango, waltz, rock 'n' roll and rhumba.
   • Dances like the rumba and cha-cha are very sexy, and offer a great opportunity for a couple to learn to move together well.
   • I was luckily given a reprieve in the form of the next dance being the rumba and therefore a bit slower than the mambo.
   • She made it to the show's semi-finals with her professional dance partner, having learnt to dance the waltz, foxtrot, samba, rumba, jive and quickstep among others.
   • He is credited with creating many of the standard steps still used today in the foxtrot and the rumba.
   • The Latin category consists of the rumba, cha cha, samba, paso doble and jive.
   • I like the rhumba, but the tango romantica is not an easy dance.
   • They can also do the rumba, samba and the London Jive.
   • The activity organized by the new dance club, had guests doing the rumba and tango to build up their appetite for the buffet dinner on offer.
   • Dances like the samba, rhumba, cha-cha, and mambo were the sexiest things that white people were allowed to do until the twist came along.
   • They enjoy completing crossword puzzles together and up until a couple of years ago were still doing the rumba, tango, waltz and foxtrot at the Town Hall.
   • On the dance floor these days, there are quite a few partners who are comfortable in T-shirts when the music calls for a jive, a samba, a rumba, a calypso, or even a good old waltz.
   • But after just a few months doing the rumba and the cha-cha together, he went a step further and proposed to Austrian-born Babette.
   • The foxtrot is still danced every night of the week in hundreds of modern sequence dance clubs around the country, along with the waltz, quickstep, tango, rhumba, cha cha, jive, mambo, salsa, saunter, blues, swing and so on.
   • This is what happens in and around a school program that teaches New York City elementary schoolers how to swing, tango, and do the rumba.

Dance the rumba.