“La Negra Tomasa” was a very attractive and charismatic Cuban woman. Her mother was a slave, but her employers inherited a piece of the farm where she worked. This allowed Tomasa to share her caring spirit with the vulnerable people of the town, helping many women and children.

For her generosity and loving kindness, after her death she was remembered by all the tenants in the region and it began to be speculated that she appeared to grant miracles. Her renown was such, that in Cuba on August 15 of each year, a great festival is celebrated in honor of “La Negra Tomasa”.

In a unique project of folkloric mixes with common roots, the two-time Grammy Award winner for Latin music – Marlow Rosado and the already classic Cuban reggaeton singer Baby Lores, come together to present “BORINCUBA”, a project by flavored “Salsaton” fusion, to which high caliber artists from the two islands and both genres have joined, such as Tito Puente Jr. whose father Tito Puente – The King of Timbales would have turned 100 years this 2023, Frankie Negron, among others.

One of the 8 songs contained in the album, revives the story of “La Negra Tomasa” who dazzles and leaves everyone in the batey spellbound by her charming beauty, her coffee and her way of cooking.

The Remix of the popular song will be accompanied by a video clip. The making of the video just finished last week and recreates modern neighborhood life two centuries later.

Surely the fault lies with the “bilongo” that Tomasa casts.

Below, we leave you the lyrics of the song so that you can sing it, when the fusion version of “La Negra Tomasa” by Marlow Rosado and Baby Lores comes out.

La Negra Tomasa / Kikiribú Mandinga (Lyrics)

(2x)
Estoy tan enamora’o de la negra Tomasa
Que cuando se va de casa
Que triste me pongo
Estoy tan enamora’o de la negra Tomasa
Que cuando se va de casa
que triste me pongo.
¡Ay! – ¡Ay! – ¡Ay!

Esa negra linda
Que me hecho bilongo.
Esa negra linda – relinda
Que me hecho bilongo.

Na’ ma’ que me gusta la comida
Que me cocina.
Na’ ma’ que me gusta la café
Que ella me cuela.
Na’ ma’ que me gusta la comida
Que me cocina.
Na’ ma’ que me gusta la café
Que ella me cuela.
¡Ay! – ¡Ay! – ¡Ay!

Esa negra linda – relinda
Que me hecho bilongo.
Esa negra linda – relinda
Que me hecho bilongo.

Quiquiribu mandinga!
Quiquiribu mandinga!!
Alla en La Habana tasajo
Y alla en Oriente mabinga.

Quiquiribu mandinga!
Quiquiribu mandinga!!
Yo conoci a un cocinero
Que cocinaba mabinga.

Quiquiribu mandinga
Quiquiribu mandinga
Y machacaba los ajos
Con la cabeza el mortero.
Quiquiribu mandinga
Quiquiribu mandinga.
Como bailaba Tomasa
En el barrio de la timba.
(3x)
Quiquiribu mandinga
Quiquiribu mandinga.