Yes, Yemana is very popular in the Caribbean, but also in Brazil and Uruguay. In the rest of the Latin American countries Yemaya is really unknown, because in places like Mexico, Central America, the Andes and the Southern Cone, the Yoruba religion doesn't exist. There, our folk religions are Indigenous. For instance, I just discovered Yemaya a couple of years ago.
I don't know if Yemaya is popular Haiti or in the english-speaking Caribbean, or if it is known in the Southern United States. That would be interesting to know.
In any case, since I discovered her, the Yemaya figure has fascinated me very much.
Here you have Celia Cruz singing to the Virgin of Regla, the syncretic figure of Yemaya:
If I am not wrong Celia is singing in Yoruba, because most of what she sing isn't Spanish. However, you listen very clearly "Yemaya" and "Virgin of Regla"
Edited by pinguin - 14-Dec-2008 at 12:20