Cimafunk is home, and he’s staying there
With the spread of the coronavirus around the world, there has been an explosion of memes on social networks with ...
Tag: cuban music
Global Cuba Fest: a platform without borders for contemporary Cuban music
A group of Cuban artists and groups such as Brenda Navarrete, Alain Pérez, Julio Montalvo Orchesta, DJ Edgaro y Sol ...
The example of “Forever Young” and what Orishas has done with “Ojalá”
In 1988 after feeling the separation from his children because of his work, the great British singer Rod Stewart composed ...
Bill Taylor, president of the Trombone Shorty Foundation: Havana and New Orleans are related spirits
The U.S. Trombone Shorty Foundation will arrive at the International Jazz Plaza Festival to strengthen cultural ties between Cuba and ...
Chucho, Cachao and Haydée Milanés among best of the decade, according to Billboard
Records of three Cuban artists were included by the prestigious Billboard magazine among the 50 best Latin albums of the ...
Cuban Jazz today: the endless list
Cuba is a prodigal land for jazz. Historically, the island’s instrumentalists have triumphed on the world’s most relevant stages and ...
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 ...
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 ...
