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...
Jazz Plaza, from Havana to New Orleans
Jazz, a bridge between two cultures, has been a connection between Havana and New Orleans. Both cities share the passion...
Yissy García and Banda XX in Jazz Plaza
Cuban drum virtuosa Yissy García changed her BandaAncha band for the Banda XX just for the 32nd edition of the...
U.S. classics in Jazz Plaza
Christian McBride, Terence Blanchard, Rachel Flowers, Arturo O’Farrill and the New York group Snarky Puppy are featured in the extensive...
Chucho Valdés and Los Van Van nominated for the 2017 Grammy Awards
Two Cuban music heavyweights, Chucho Valdés and Los Van Van, are aspiring to the Anglo-Saxon 2017 Grammy Awards, the American...
Buena Fe Tampa concert canceled
What happened with Tampa’s December concert? asked Dailes Maqueira, one of Buena Fe’s followers on the Facebook page of the...
FIHAV 2016: with the United States and against the embargo
The United States is returning to the Havana International Trade Fair (FIHAV), an event that will start next October 31....
The migratory flow to the United States doesn’t stop
If you live in Cuba and feel that increasingly more relatives, friends and acquaintances are leaving the country, your assessment...
Terence Blanchard, Christian McBride and Chucho Valdés in Jazz Plaza 2016
Jazz heavyweights in Cuba and the United States are again taking Havana as a meeting point. The Jazz Plaza International...
Frank Fernández: “Nothing Can Be Done without Strength”
Hanging on the walls, there are paintings by Cuban painters such as Flora, Lam, Portocarrero, Lara, Fabelo. The room smells...
Cubans in Louisville
Louisville, a city famous for horseracing and fried chicken, has become a hotspot for Cuban immigration. Cubans are now the...
Turbo, another bottleneck in Cuban migration to the US
Turbo is a small Colombian municipality located in the Darien jungle bordering Panama. Until a few months ago, it was...
Oceania Cruises could set sail to Cuba
Oceania Cruises could dock in Cuban ports in the coming months, Frank Del Rio, the CEO of the line’s parent...
Diana Fuentes, the face behind the voice
Diana Fuentes does not strain her voice. She doesn’t stammer when she speaks. She doesn’t wear earrings or any type...
