Yoruba Andabo is made up of 17 artists including singers, percussionists, and dancers and professionally performs the most important genres of both religious and profane music within the Africans roots of Cuban culture. The group had its genesis in the Havana Docks where, in 1961, a group of workers met and created what was known then as Guaguancó Marítimo Portuario. When they became professional, the group was re-baptized Yoruba Andabo when, in 1986, they started working in a series of activities for, and with, the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC).