When Daymé Arocena took the stage on Monday night for her Los Angeles debut, the 22-year-old looked resplendent in a white dress and matching headwrap. The backing band for the Havana singer and ...

In Callejón del Hamel, a street in Cuba lined with art shops and murals, rumba is a way of life. Every Sunday around noon, both locals and tourists gather in the streets to watch, and often partake, ...

Rumba, a potent, percussion-driven blend of African and Spanish influences, emerged as a distinctive tradition in late 19th-century Cuba, providing the template for much of the island’s popular music ...

If you love the wonderful beat of merengue music or the sounds of Cuban rumba, you'll be happy to know they're considered worldwide cultural treasures. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and ...

The most adventurous production out of Cuba of late is a revisionist take on the venerable rumba. At the MIDEM conference in Cannes last month, producer Cary Diez of the Havana label BIS Music ...

The death of Cuban conga master Carlos "Patato" Valdes this past December provides a sad opportunity to dig out one of his best-known recordings — which also happens to be a groundbreaking piece of ...

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“Ivy League Rumba,” a documentary covering the Latin Jazz and Pop Festival held at Brown last fall, premiered Thursday at the Watson Institute for International Studies. The film explores contemporary ...

Okuté are an ensemble from Havana, Cuba who — to quote their bio — are “putting the spotlight on the sound of 1960s Cuba with a contemporary spirit.” Their self-titled debut album comes out June 4 via ...

Photo by: Photo taken on location in Santiago de Cuba, home of last month's inaugural Manana Festival. The event combined Cuban music makers with international electronic artists. All photos shot in ...

Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws. —Andrew Fletcher, 1703. In the politically violent land of Cuba there is often some doubt as to who, exactly, is writing the laws.