Montreal overflows with Cuban jazz
The 40th edition of the Montreal Jazz Festival, Canada, considered among the most important in the world, will have Cuban...
“Rock ’n’ roll with timba is awesome”
Habana Abierta was an explosion in the Cuban underground scene. The members of this creative group recorded, after settling in...
Descemer Buenos: dancing the Buenos Aires night
Before leaving the Miami airport, in the last waiting lounge, composer, guitarist and producer Descemer Bueno (1971) broadcast on Facebook...
Issac Delgado: “My music needs Cuban reality”
There is a song that forever united Isaac Delgado with Celia Cruz. The legendary salsa singer had recorded "La vida...
Síntesis: “Afro-Cuban music sounds on its own”
Nineteen days after Fidel Castro’s death there still existed, throughout the country, a kind of unofficial curfew. Shows, concerts and...
Cimafunk’s music spree in the United States
Cimafunk’s success during his debut in the United States was no surprise. The musician landed after having jam-packed every space...
Pablo and Varela in new days of glory
Pablo Milanés and Carlos Varela joined in two guitar-solo concerts in Miami on March 29 and 30 that remained recorded...
Pablo Milanés: “I can’t be away from Cuba for a long time because nostalgia invades me”
Pablo Milanés arrived on dot at noon at the PM Records studio with his wife, Nancy, to continue the pre-rehearsals...
Havana World Music, a festival that should not die
The Havana World Music Festival has brought to Havana bands and artists with a rigorous proposal far removed from the...
Andy y Lucas duo will debut in Cuba with “Nueva Vida”
The Spanish Andy y Lucas duo, which reached high levels of popularity during the past decade, will perform in Havana...
Haydée Milanés and Chico Buarque sing to Pablo
The Deluxe edition of the album Amor by Haydée Milanés presented on March 8th her new guest: Chico Buarque. "I...
Vedado Social Club, a Cultural Oasis in Miami
The top floor of the Langford Hotel in downtown Miami is decorated New York-style: cushions and sofas on the edges...
Roberto Fonseca: “I respect all those who struggle to create”
Music in Cuba The Cuban musical panorama is very interesting. There are many people, especially young people, who are doing...
Miguel Cancio, the last of Los Zafiros
In 1997, at the Capri Hotel, in the middle of the Cuban salsa boom, a performance by Los Zafiros was...
This is Cuban Music, And I’m Going to Give It to You Live, Alive!
Cima My old friends call me El Manta. They’re friends from when I started with trova, and my buddies from...
Paul Oakenfold, an electronic music guru in Cuba
British DJ Paul Oakenfold is returning to Cuba after almost two decades since his first visit, in February 1999. At...
Valdés Brothers, Chucho’s children
During his childhood, sometimes in the early morning hours Jessie Valdés got up and found his father working. “I would...
Cuban jazz in New Orleans
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, more commonly known as Jazz Fest, is arguably the biggest and best festival of...
Young Cuban jazz to New York
They are traveling to New York with jazz as their passport. They are 17 Cubans, students from different music schools,...
The days that Havana was jazz
Finding Esperanza Spalding walking along the Prado Promenade close to the Capitol Building; bumping into Marcus Miller taking pictures on...
Twenty years of “Locura Azul”
Bárbaro Marín, Néstor Jiménez, Luis Alberto García and Sirio Soto are Los Zafiros of the Cuban film. Four very young...
Kenneth Cole: “I would love to work in Cuba”
Kenneth Cole does not believe in barriers, neither for art nor for life. That’s why he started a successful fashion...
Leyendas.COM, a passion for the 1950s
Leyendas.COM defends a particular taste for music from the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s in last century’s Cuba. The group approaches...
Rachel Flowers, music to see
California, December 1993. Rachel Flowers, the eldest daughter of musicians Jeanie and Dan Flowers, is born 15 weeks before the...
A musical bridge from Cuba to the United States
Throughout the two years since Havana and Washington announced the reestablishment of relations, art and culture has been one of...
