A group of Hispanic Catholic musicians will hold on concert on October 26 in Miami to launch a new CD by Cuban composer Jorge Enrique del Rivero, who died before he could finish the recording. “Yo ...

HAVANA — In a rattan chair with a large oval backrest, almost like a throne, the 94-year-old “Diva” of Buena Vista Social Club, Omara Portuondo, sat in her home in Cuba as she reminisced about her ...

Cuban singer-songwriter Niuver is, from the start, an evocation. Even her name has a fleeting, cloudlike quality to it-light and musical, stretching delicately like the rolling "r"s in the songs of ...

Jukebox Broadway musicals need conflict and the evil suits at Capitol Records are a perennial villain for artists who just want to be themselves. In “Buena Vista Social Club,” the venerable label even ...

Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis is in Cuba this week with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for a series of concerts, recordings and cultural exchanges. Wynton Marsalis is in Cuba this week. His new ...

Cimafunk, a 35-year-old musician dubbed a "global ambassador" for Cuban music, has earned Grammy nominations three years in a row. Blending genres from Latin rock to Afro-Cuban funk, he creates his ...

Move to the beat of a different drum with a free concert at Bakersfield College on Sunday. Instructor Robert Woods-Ladue and students from his Afro-Cuban folkloric percussion class will carry on an ...