Talk:Axé music

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[edit] Different Meaning in Cuba?

I'm pretty sure that in Cuban music "axé" or "aché" refers to a concept similar to "soul" in English when referring to music (as in "playing with soul") and comes from the Yoruban "ashé" which kind of means "let it be done" or "so it is" (although I don't speak Yoruban, so I can't say that for sure.) I hesitate to make any changes because I'm not Cuban, so I'm not sure if it's really normally used that way, or if it's more normal for it to be used as an explicit reference to West Africa or Santería. Namaps (talk) 21:31, 21 May 2008 (UTC)