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Singer-songwriter Diana Fuentes is a leader within the flourishing generation of performers and musicians in Cuba. Her second album, Planeta Planetario, which was a joint artistic collaboration with renowned Puerto Rican musician and producer, Eduardo Cabra (Visitante), a member of Calle 13 has b...
Cuban pianist Ernán López Nussa is a seasoned and meticulous artist who has built an international reputation on his ability to combine rhythm, lyricism and fusion in an authentic manner. He is a gifted composer, arranger and interpreter creating music with impressive formal richness and great ve...
Carlos varela is a Cuban singer and composer who has been part of the Nova Trova movement since the 80’s after studying Drama at the Instituto Superior de Arte. Carlos has performed around the world with artists such as Silvio Rodriguez, Pablo Milanes, Jackson Browne and Alejandro Sanz and has al...
There may be no stranger concert venue than Havana’s Jardines de La Tropical, a former beer garden overhung with jungle vines on the banks of the Almendares River, a place where Tarzan the Ape Man might have thrown moonlight rave parties. The legendary status of Los Jardines began in the 1940s wh...
Manuel Galban (1931-2011) is a Grammy Award winner Cuban guitarist, pianist and arranger native from Gibara, in the Holguín Province of eastern Cuba. Along his long career he has worked with Los Zafiros, La vieja Trova Santiaguera, Ry Cooder and Buena Vista Social Club among many other musical p...
Once upon a time, music fit neatly into well-defined sections at record stores. Genres like rock, pop, jazz, salsa, tango and classical all had their own artists, audiences and venues. Cuban music though, was always the exception to the rule. For generations, from Ernesto Lecuona to Israel Lopez ...