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-classic, ...
To hear reparto in Havana, you don’t have to go far. It’s playing in every taxi, every café lining La Habana Vieja, on Friday nights at Don Cangrejo and Saturday mornings at Mio y Tuyo. A homemade mix ...
Based on real-life events and people, Buena Vista Social Club features many characters and lots of great Cuban music. It takes such skill to reflect music of a bygone era, even more to sound fresh and ...
Cuba has long had a rich and varied musical life that includes European classical music. The Conservatory of Music in Cuba is named for an outstanding Cuban composer of the baroque era. You’ll hear ...
HAVANA — In a rattan chair with a large oval backrest, almost like a throne, the 94-year-old “Diva” of Buena Vista Social Club, Omara Portuondo, sat in her home in Cuba as she reminisced about her ...
Growing up in Havana in the 1970s violinist Ilmar Gavilán and his younger brother, pianist Aldo López-Gavilán, experienced music as a powerfully binding force. Playing and composing was a family ...
Cuban singer, songwriter, actor, model, and music producer Yotuel Romero recently delighted his fans by unveiling his latest ...
Of course, you’ve heard of Latin pop — and opera. They're two genres that are worlds apart. But when you bring them together, you get Latin pop opera. That's the genre of music played by The Latin ...