It's time for our monthly chat with Alt.Latino about Latin music, and Felix Contreras is with us. But Felix, this does not sound like Latin music. FELIX CONTRERAS, BYLINE: Hey, Rachel. Well, you know, ...
From her days as a pioneer of Cuban jazz music in the 1940s to her legendary appearances with the Buena Vista Social Club in the late 1990s and her following artistic revival, singer Omara Portuondo ...
The pioneering Cuban percussionist Cándido Camero has died at age 99. Camero's grandson, Julian, told NPR member station WBGO that the Cuban conguero died peacefully at his home in New York on ...
Cuban jazz drummer Diego “Mofeta” Iborra passed away last month at 89. You never know who some of Miami Beach’s golden oldies are or might have been in their younger years, unless of course they reach ...
In the Cuba of the Revolution, culture has been an often brutally disputed battlefield. Creators make for unruly subjects and present autocrats and dictators with profound challenges and elusive ...