HAVANA – Socialist Cuba, the birthplace of salsa and other rhythms that have conquered the world, is now surrendering to the invasion of South Korean pop music. Thirteen thousand kilometers of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 4—Team Havana loves playing Albuquerque. So much so, its band members hope to move here one day. "We wish to live in ...

Salsa band leader Joe Cuba, dubbed the “Father of Latin Boogaloo" for weaving a fluid, bilingual mix of musical influences, died Sunday in New York City, a member of his group said. He was 78. The ...

Tokyo, Japan – Victor Rodriguez, a Cuban musician, had planned a short stay in Japan with his band to try and make money teaching salsa dance to desiring Japanese. But 11 years later, he finds himself ...

Eric Hirsh grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, more than 1,000 miles from the then-off-limits streets of Havana. But his eventual immersion in Cuba’s music didn’t come by complete accident. In fact, it ...

Johnny Pacheco played music that made it impossible to sit still. The Dominican-born multi-instrumentalist experimented with different Latin American musical styles, though he was particularly ...

Songlines Music Travel has places on its 16-day small group Viva La Revolución trip to Cuba departing 30 December, which will celebrate all aspects of the vibrant music scene of the Caribbean island, ...

It’s a sunny spring afternoon in south London and a selector is slamming down some of the slinkiest salsa cuts outside of San Juan. This is one of the hottest tickets in town, a party put on by ...