But the woman serving as the guide for his group insisted on taking him to a nearby music venue to see an Afro-Cuban funk band called Cimafunk, by consensus the hottest band in Cuba.

One of the most significant things I learned in speaking with the musician Cimafunk at NPR Music's 15th anniversary celebration was about his recognition of and allegiance to his Afro-Cuban culture.

Like a band of pioneers steered by the boldness and ... "Really, one of the things that inspired me the most was dance music, apart from Afro-Cuban jazz music, to which we added all the elements ...

Colombian band Monsieur Perine joins for the percussive ... particularly between the Black American and Afro-Cuban communities, Cimafunk decided to make a second home in New Orleans.

Cimafunk: How his Afro-Cuban funk tells a bigger story about the African diaspora : Alt.Latino Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras sit down with Cimafunk to talk about how he's created his singular ...

“I write all the music for the band,” said de Marcos ... and mix my own compositions with jewels of Afro-Cuban music. We rehearse four or five days before we go on the road because everybody ...

Hsu serves as the founder and music director of two bands with different instrumentations: The Jazz Supreme Orchestra and Soy La Ley Afro-Cuban Jazz Band, which was invited to perform at the New ...

Its founder Steve Roitstein is the bandleader who makes the cafecito. PALO! is an Afro-Cuban funk band made in Miami. Their sound is Miami. Their influences come from the 305 and the music of the ...

Afro-Cuban dance orchestras flourished in the 1950s ... politics and the United States embargo of Cuba. Now a bi-national band is reviving the sophisticated sound that animated those joy-filled ...

"Afro-Cuban Rhythms of Resilience ... la Habana, la Habana ♪ Whoo! (band continues) (audience cheers and applauds) Thank you. - (singing softly with piano) (song continues) (song continues ...