Cuban singer-songwriter Ronkalunga will perform Nov. 15 at Palenke Arts, 1713 Broadway Ave., in Seaside with doors opening at 6:30, and the concert lasting from 7-9 p.m. Tickets are available for ...
The centennial of Celia Cruz, Cuba’s “Queen of Salsa” and one of the most iconic voices in Latin music, passed largely ...
Reporting from SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba — “Solo quiero conectarme la Wi-Fi.” That’s the hook from a new song by the Barcelona-based, Afro-Cuban singer and producer Kumar Sublevao-Beat. And throughout ...
NEW ORLEANS — Last month, ten young people with the Trombone Shorty Foundation joined famous New Orleans musicians to perform at the Havana Jazz Festival in Cuba. The trip was designed to showcase New ...
Cuba is such a musical country, and it’s hard to find a Havana street that doesn’t have music coming out of a storefront. The rich brew of Cuban music consists of African rhythms,… Maraca once told me ...
Reporting from Havana — Coming from a Spanish-speaking musician, the song “Muros y Puertas (Walls and Doors),” could easily have been interpreted as a response to one of the key campaign promises of ...
If 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 ...
If there is one film that can serve as a metaphor for how little the world knows about Cuba, Latin America, and the rest of the region, it’s "The Forbidden Shore," a marvelous documentary that ...
MIAMI — The United States and Cuba have forged all kinds of new ties over the past year, from re-establishing diplomatic relations to new business deals. Now, a New York-based group is about to export ...