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The music of the Yoruba people of Nigeria and Benin are perhaps best known for an extremely advanced drumming tradition especially using the dundun hourglass tension drums. Yoruba folk music became perhaps the most prominent kind of West African music in Afro-Latin and Caribbean musical styles. Yorùbá music left an especially important influence on the music used in Lukumi practice and the music of Cuba
