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San Lazaro the name and its meaning...

During the times of slavery in Cuba, praise to the African (Nigerian) Yoruba Orishas (saints) was often disguised as prayer to the Catholic saints.

San Lazaro (Saint Lazarus in English) is the catholic parallel of the Orisha "Babalu Aye" from the Yoruba religion called Santeria.

San Lazaro is a deity of the sick and the poor and is considered a healer of physical and spiritual pain. As protectors of the most humble, the sick and the needy, Babalu Aye and San Lazaro hold a special place for all Cubans.

One of the main roads running parallel to the Malecon waterfront in Havana is named after San Lazaro. It is on this street that we the band San Lazaro have found our name.

Some of us have lived on this street, been treated for our own illnesses in hospitals there, studied music there, laughed, cried and sunk many a bottle of rum its in crumbling apartments.