When the kids in Havana want to go out dancing, it isn’t the throwback tunes of the Buena Vista Social Club pensioners that get the floor shaking. Besides the rapidly burgeoning Cuban hiphop scene, ...

José Luis Cortés, "one of the most important figures in contemporary Cuban music," died on April 18 in Havana, Cuba per the Instituto Cubano de la Música Jack Irvin has over five years of experience ...

There was history in the air Tuesday night when one of the giants of Cuban music, Cesar “Pupy” Pedroso, led his powerhouse band Los que Son Son into Boston for the first time. Besides bringing a ...

In Cuba, the seven young men studied at the National School of Arts where music was their passion. They always knew that someday they would continue the tradition of their musical roots even as they ...

He was trained in the classics and jazz, but he helped popularize a new, danceable genre known as timba. By Neil Genzlinger José Luis Cortés, a Cuban musician who with his popular band, NG La Banda, ...