Acclaimed living legend of Afro-Cuban music, seven-time GRAMMY Award winner and six-time Latin GRAMMY Award winner Chucho Valdés celebrates his lauded 60-year recording career with an instant ...

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 ...

AUGUST BROWN goes to Cuba to check out the Manana Cuba festival, the country's first electronic music festival since relations between the country were relaxed. The festival made a concerted ...

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

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 ...

It uses an African rhythm coupled with Spanish poetic styles and the use of plucked instruments, and dates back to the 1700s. The music doesn’t stop there as mambo, timba and many other types of song ...

In March 2014, Pedraja, who is 28, and six friends created the first issue of 'Vistar,' a magazine that speaks to and for an audience Pedraja describes simply as “Cuban and young.

It was the latter that led to his detainment, trial without an attorney, and imprisonment in November 2020, after he released music critical of Cuba’s communist government and was a leader in ...

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

Cuba’s eclectic history patches together Spanish, African, and Caribbean influences, which color the music that seeps out of the country’s pores.

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 ...

5 Cuba Music Tours to Book Before Possible Travel Tightening While there is no evidence as yet that the party is over for Americans in Cuba, music lovers who have still not traveled to Cuba might ...