CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014. Roosevelt University student Jonathan Pacheco and his band Buya decided on the spur of the moment recently to share music and culture with Chicago commuters.
Now a video of the 19-year-old sophomore and Buya’s music, an African-Puerto Rican blend of sounds known as Bomba – as performed in a moving CTA blue line car bound for O’Hare Airport – is becoming a TV hit and going viral on the Internet.
“We got on the blue line for about five stops and played a couple of songs and now we’re being seen and heard all over the world,” said Pacheco, whose video originally posted on www.vimeo.com has made it to channels 5 and 7 in Chicago and has been seen as far away as Huffington Post Korea.
The spontaneous performance in late September, which features Pacheco drumming and CTA blue line commuters dancing, has gone over so well that the Roosevelt student and his group will be performing live at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 8 on ABC 7’s Windy City Live program.
“I guess when you do things in good spirit and with good intentions, it comes back to you,” said Pacheco, who hasn’t yet declared a major, but is growing increasingly interested in the University’s jazz studies program.
The Buya video, which has had nearly 15,000 views and has been all over social media, is available at: http://vimeo.com/107010431
Source: roosevelt.edu
