Cuba and its Music is more or less required reading if you want to know the subject well. Take your time to absorb all this information; it's not a small matter. But Ned Sublette's global perspective ...

Arturo Sandoval reflects on Cuba, Dizzy Gillespie, working with family and why passion—not talent—is the key to a lasting ...

Jessica Roiz Wed, June 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM UTC 20 min read Reparto Music Is Cuba’s New Urban Movement: 31 Artists to Discover ...

As one woman told Bob White, a professor of anthropology at the University of Montreal, in his 2002 study of Congolese music, son already “comes from Africa.” “It was Africans that were sold ...

Music 'Us and the Cubans, our music and our people are the same' When a group of New Orleans musicians made the trip to Cuba, there was no need for an interpreter. 00:00 00:00 ...

Go-Go global: DC's official music is headed to Cuba FutureBandDC is teaching a go-go masterclass as part of a cultural exchange program. To stream WUSA9 on your phone, you need the WUSA9 app.

Discovering Cuba, an Island of Music Text by Shannon Sims Photographs and Video by Todd Heisler Sept. 29, 2019 ...

I f this were a music video, it would start in this living room in Havana, with a tight shot of the skinny kid in the white tank top at the keyboard. He counts it off from four, and with a sort of ...

Gomez, the primary writer and arranger as well as leader, described the music as a more modern form from Cuba, called timba. It is an amalgam of many styles, including salsa, cha-cha-cha and merengue.

Writing in On Cuba, music critic Enriquito Nuñez Rodríguez said the ensemble “sounded like a well-tuned, taut and subtle instrument, responding bravely and knowledgeably to each conundrum raised in ...

On Wednesday (March 29), video surfaced of 6ix9ine apparently recording a new music video in Cuba. In the clip (below), Tekashi is shrouded in a huge Cuban flag while surrounded by dozens of people.

Opposition activist Yunior García Aguilera, playwright and one of the organizers of a protest march, stands at a window of his home with a white flower, in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021.