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After becoming a household name in his native Cuba—as one of the biggest exponents of Reparto music right now—Bebeshito ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cuci Amador, left, and Tony Laurencio, right, are Afrobeta. The Miami duo stars in the Emmy-nominated documentary, "Birthright," about their trip to play in Cuba. You can watch it now on PBS online.
Mr. RUBALCABA: To play jazz music in Cuba between the '60s and the beginning of the '80s had meaning to be playing the music of the enemy. That simple.
Cimafunk's journey from Cuba to New Orleans: 'I’ve got funk in my music, and funk is from here' 'CimaFest' takes over the Civic Theatre on the first Saturday of Jazz Fest with a night of Afro ...
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 ...
Sundial How a trip to Cuba - and music - taught duo Afrobeta about who they are By Carlos Frías, Leslie Ovalle Atkinson, Elisa Baena, Alyssa Ramos Published November 1, 2023 at 2:38 PM EDT ...