Hector Luis Rivera is a Bronx born Boricua poet and song writer, performing since 1990. For 16 years, he co-led the Welfare Poets, scripting rap, Puerto Rican sones de bomba, and Puerto Rican plenas. Following his move to Chicago in 2006, and extending to this day, Hector enriched the genre of Puerto Rican bomba with dozens of new songs in different rhythms, sung throughout the diaspora and on the Puerto Rican archipelago. Hector continues to enjoy “painting pictures with words” and giving emotions melodic interventions via various poetic and song styles.