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CD Review – Eliades Ochoa: Vamos a Bailar un Son

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 19/01/202319/01/2023

CD/vinyl, World Circuit, October 2022 As a key member of the Buena Vista Social Club,…

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Afro-Cuban roots-fusion group Sintesis wins Latin Grammy for ‘Ancestros Sinfonico’

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/11/2022

This November Cuban supergroup Síntesis (‘synthesis’ in English) won a Latin Grammy ‘Best Folkloric album’…

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Trova – The Cuban sound of voice and guitar

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 15/08/202221/08/2022

Trova – the intimate Cuban sound of guitars and vocal harmonies singing poetic lyrics –…

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What is Son Cubano?

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 21/07/202221/07/2022

Son is a vocal and instrumental dance genre, which constitutes one of the basic forms…

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The winners of the Cubadisco awards in 2022

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/06/202219/01/2023

This May, the Cuban music industry awards CUBADISCCO took place in person and online. The…

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6 great Cuban love songs

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 14/02/202214/02/2022

Did Cubans invent the love song? Many great love songs of undying love, or loss…

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JAZZ PLAZA – Cuba’s annual international jazz festival in person and online 18-23 January 2022

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 23/01/202223/01/2022

Six days of jazz – concerts, colloquiums, conferences, video presentations, following all covid-19 rules, Jazz…

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Cuban composer José María Vitier is awarded the 2021 National Music Prize

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 02/01/202203/01/2022

The Cuban pianist, composer and arranger José María Vitier (Havana, January 7, 1954) was awarded…

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Silvio Rodríguez: “It was quite logical that expressions of exhaustion appeared in Cuba”

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 07/12/2021

Interview by Claudio Vergara published by La Tercera, 27/11/21 Silvio Rodríguez’s 2021 diary has been…

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Cuban Legend Adalberto Álvarez Dies at 72

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 04/09/202118/10/2021

Celebrated Cuban composer, arranger, pianist, and conductor, Adalberto Álvarez died on September 1, 2021 of…

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The Bolero is declared National Cultural Heritage in Cuba

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/08/202126/06/2022

The bolero, a vocal, instrumental and danceable genre of the song movement in Cuba, has…

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Celebrations for the centenary of Cuban musician Ñico Rojas

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/07/202101/01/2022

August 3 marks the centenary of the birth of the Cuban musician José Antonio Rojas,…

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Music between Cuba and West Africa

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  • Posted on 06/07/2021

Elina Djebbari discusses musical exchanges between newly independent African states and Cuba in the 1960s…

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The US blockade is not against the government of Cuba, but its people: Israel Rojas, Cuban singer

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 24/05/202106/07/2021

Interview with Buena Fe singer Israel Rojas, from CubaDebate. On a computer screen you can…

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Who were the winners of Cubadisco 2021?

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 17/05/202118/10/2021

Each May, the Cubadisco event takes the pulse of the Cuban music recording industry. Having…

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