The legendary British band “The Rolling Stones” just posted a video message of greeting to Cuba, two days before their historic free concert will this Friday in Havana, reported dpa news.
Read MoreA Cuban singer and musician arrives in the Arab Emirates to discover her true home. Hakely Nakao launches her first album in another distant land, Turkey, where she now resides.
Read MoreAn international crew of workers from England, Germany, Belgium, Mexico, Peru and the host country are going full speed to ready the stage with its huge towers for the first ever Rolling Stones concert in Cuba, a country that previously forbade its citizens to listen to their music. (10 photos)
Read MoreThe Quenedit Ballet School (QBS) of San Antonio, Texas has seven students aging in range from 12-17 that have been invited to participate in the Cuban National Ballet School’s annual workshop March 21-25, 2016 in Havana, Cuba.
Read MoreSome time ago Havana Times published a report that made a severe criticism of the La Zorra y el Cuervo nightclub, a space destined to enjoy the best of Cuban Jazz.
Read MoreThe Rolling Stones confirmed today on their website that will give a free concert in Havana, Cuba on March 25, reported dpa news.
Read MoreLegendary singer Elis Regina once said: “The only real singers in Brazil are Gal Costa and me.” Paraphrasing the diva, I could say that, in today’s Cuba, the only real singer is Dayme Arocena. Three things define Dayme: her frank and sincere laugh, her peculiar modesty and her singular voice.
Read MoreLianne Vega is a young Cuban pianist with a talent that even the most demanding audiences acknowledge. “I believe that, unlike in other countries, particularly in Latin America, art education in Cuba has the advantage of having inherited from Russia a very well organized educational system,” she told HT.
Read MoreOn the occasion of another anniversary of Cuba’s San Alejandro Arts Academy – celebrated recently – we conversed with Aluan Arguelles, one of the institution’s youngest teachers, to get to know how this, Latin America’s oldest school of its type, operates internally.
Read MoreYoung Eduardo Sandoval considers himself the heir of Cuban trombonist Juan Pablo Torres, who passed away in 2005 at 58. When Eduardo speaks of the late musician, his eyes light up in a very special way. The work of Torres was actually one of the sources of inspiration for Eduardo’s first album, titled Caminos abiertos (“Open Roads”).
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