Cimafunk: “My thing is still an experiment”
Wearing a black T-shirt, two rings on his left hand and sunglasses, Cimafunk opens the door of the studio of ...
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Daymé Arocena, the strong beats of Cuban jazz
Daymé Arocena's heartbeat is heard loudly. With her new album, Sonocardiogram, the Cuban singer opens a loophole to the world ...
Pablo and Haydée Milanés to take their “luxury love” to festival in Mexico
Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés and his daughter Haydée Milanés will be two of the main guests of the sixth edition ...
Descemer Bueno: “Urban music is in absolute decline”
Descemer Bueno is a kind of music creation worker. The musician barely rests in his aim to take his music ...
Cimafunk in New York: “I’m in a dream”
Cimafunk has never been patient. The musician did not sit down to wait for luck to knock on his door ...
Music Excellence Award for Omara Portuondo
Omara Portuondo, Lupita D’Alessio, Joan Baez and Hugo Fattoruso are some of the winners of the Music Excellence Award of ...
Yanela Brooks: music to share, not compete
Yanela Brooks has been living outside of Cuba for about a decade, but nevertheless she doesn’t neglect her roots. Her ...
Haydée Milanés presents her new album in Cuba
"This is an essentially love album," said Haydée Milanés when presenting her new record this Friday at a press conference ...
Hip hop festival in Cuba reaches its 8th edition
The Urban Potaje Festival, which highlights the values of hip hop culture in the Cuban music scene, will hold its ...
Plaque unveiled in Havana to remember Juan Formell
On December 4, 1969, Juan Formell created the great Cuban band Los Van Van, with such a strong legacy that ...
Pablo Milanés: “I’m very satisfied with the public’s reception of my ‘Esencia’ tour”
Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés will resume his "Esencia" tour with a concert on August 25 at the Frigiliana 3 Culturas ...
Haydée Milanés: Music from within
Haydée Milanés is one of the most versatile musicians of her generation. She is sitting in her living room at ...
Faustino Oramas, “El Guayabero”
Last June 4, according to his birth certificate, Faustino Oramas Osorio, "El Guayabero," one of the legends of Cuban music, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
From Minnesota to Havana, diplomacy with music
In May 2015 musician Rena Kraut saw her busy and serious colleagues of the Minnesota Orchestra smile as they rarely ...
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 ...
Antonio Llaca: Cuban music to move his life
Antonio Llaca was born in Havana in 1984. At the age of 12 his parents took him to Venezuela for ...
