FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2001 file photo, Juan Formell, leader of the Cuban orchestra Los Van Van, performs late Sunday in Havana, Cuba during a farewell summer concert.

La Habana, 2 may (EFE). — El músico cubano Juan Formell, líder de la legendaria orquesta “Los Van Van” y fallecido ayer a los 71 años, será homenajeado el sábado con conciertos ...

Juan Formell y “Los Van Van”, la orquesta que fundó en 1969 y que se ha mantenido durante décadas como la favorita del público cubano, recibieron en 1999 el Grammy por su álbum “Llegó… ...

Juan Carlos Formell is a musician that combines the musical traditions of his native Cuba with influences from throughout the Caribbean and Latin America along with the flavor and sophistication of ...

Singer-songwriter Juan Carlos Formell was born into Cuban music royalty but forged his own path. He was the bassist for Los Van Van, one of the most influential bands from post-Revolution Cuba.

Juan-Carlos Formell, the rarely recorded Cuban emigre guitarist whose father founded the celebrated Los Van Van, continues to open new doors for a pan-Latin sound that owes as much to South ...

Formell recalls the bleakness: "...in my twenties, at a time when most musicians are full of hope, I was resigned to a future of marginalization." Juan Carlos Formell. 9 p.m. Sunday, May 2.

That couplet serves as a microcosm of the band led by Cuban singer-songwriter Juan-Carlos Formell. Based in the U.S. for nearly two decades, he still hardly speaks any English, but his imagination ...

Los Van Van leader Juan Formell, who died May 1 in Havana, often said it was the group's job to make people dance. Under his direction, Cuba's hardest-working band delivered on that promise for ...