LOS ANGELES >> Cuba’s Roberto Gomez had a single night free on his first trip to San Francisco, part of a short performance visit in his role as lead guitarist for singer-songwriter Carlos Varela, ...

Mix it all together and you get Cimafunk, who has been called the James Brown of Cuba and “Cuba’s 2018 revelation of the year.” He was named one of Billboard’s 10 Latin Artists to Watch in 2019. While ...

Roberto Juan Rodriguez was 40 years old when he took a risk and released his first solo album, "El Danzon de Moises," in 2001, a festive fusion of overlapping Cuban rhythms and Eastern European ...

In an odd twist of fate, it was Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005, that led to the Preservation Hall Jazz Band‘s joyful pilgrimage to Cuba a decade later. The hurricane, which ...

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 ...

The Cuban singer and bandleader Daymé Arocena is best known for her massive voice, a throaty bellow that has invited comparisons to Aretha Franklin and Celia Cruz, the queen divas themselves. But ...

Big up the female DJs! Snowhite is a Miami staple who has specialized in crossing cultural boundaries with her mixes. She even won Miami New Times‘ Readers Choice poll for Best DJ in 2003. She’ll get ...

During its first tour of the United States, the Cuban band Cimafunk headlined Tipitina’s on April 6, 2019, bandleader Erik “Cima” Rodriguez’s 30th birthday. To perform in New Orleans at Tipitina’s on ...

We've just enjoyed a short run of Alt.Latino episodes that dig deeper into Cuban music. We've heard a lot of history and met some experts, and I got to play some music from my recent visit to Havana.

The Seattle band Anjuman combines the melodies of traditional East Indian music with the rhythmic vitality of Afro-Cuban drumming from 9 p.m. to midnight Saturday, March 29 at the Star Bar in downtown ...

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 ...