Music Cimafunk’s Ecstatic Collaborative Spirit The Afro-Cuban artist discusses his new album, which features George Clinton, Lupe Fiasco, and Cuban classics like Los Papines ...

Drummer Brian Andres has been leading his powerhouse Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel since 2007, establishing them as a prime voice in the thriving San Francisco Bay Area Latin jazz scene. With his third album ...

Afro-Cuban funk artist Cimafunk makes music for the body on new album ‘Pa’ Tu Cuerpa’ BY JAKE CLAPP Sep 15, 2024 ...

Cimafunk, a 35-year-old musician dubbed a "global ambassador" for Cuban music, has earned Grammy nominations three years in a row. Blending genres from Latin rock to Afro-Cuban funk, he creates ...

Medina grew up in Cuba, but his voracious appetite for music didn’t make it any easier for him to find a copy of Yoyi. “This record wasn’t on my radar growing up in the 80s and 90s,” he says.

Through music and song, the stories of Afro-Cuban folklore, sustained by the Yoruba people throughout the African diaspora, will come to life. The performance begins with three songs named for the ...

More recently, he brought Cuban music to Off Broadway with “Buena Vista Social Club,” a musical based on the 1996 project with a script by Cuban American playwright Marco Ramirez.

He served as the first musical director of the Buena Vista Social Club project, and he’s led the Afro-Cuban All Stars since 1996. As he told me over the phone, he wants to give Cuban music ...

The Seattle band Anjuman combines the melodies of traditional East Indian music with the rhythmic vitality of Afro-Cuban drumming from 9 p.m. to midnight Saturday, March 29 at the Star ...

Pozo clued in Gillespie’s band to the dense polyrhythmic patterns that permeate the Afro-Cuban music that he learned as a street drummer in the Black Cayo Hueso neighborhood of Havana.