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SINTESIS is one of the emblematic formations of contemporary Cuban music, they are among the most recognized and popular musical groups on the island. Their career is endorsed by repeated successes inside and outside Cuba. Headed by Carlos Alfonso, the Síntesis group, in its artistic journey has...

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...

Candi soon was asked to sit in on sessions with names like Poncho Sanchez, Paquito de Rivera, and Juan Pablo Torres. She played with Andy Garcia and Celia Cruz at “Carnaval Azucar”; she appeared at the Coliseum with Oscar de Leon; she played with Anita O’Day and Eddie Cano at “Jazz on the Hill” s...

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 ...

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...