The “Buena Vista Social Club” will perform this Thursday at a Hispanic gala at the White House with the President Barack Obama. The performance “is the first of a Cuban band at the White House for more than 50 years.
Read MoreKaty Perry, the new goddess of pop in the United States, snuck into Havana over the weekend, following in the footsteps of Beyonce, Rihanna and Mick Jagger and the expected visits of Sting and Stevie Wonder.
Read MoreFrank Rodriguez, a young folk musician from Santiago de Cuba, can already look back on a long and rewarding music career. “Changing our milieu is good for us as artists, you have to be willing to risk everything.”
Read MoreHaving finished recording her most recent album with an African label, Cuban musician Lindiana Murphy treats us to a wholly new experience and pieces that have already earned acclaim among listeners on the island. “The women in Angola were the ones who taught me the most,” said Lindiana in her interview with HT.
Read More“A bit of music, a bit of music!” DJ Neurys exclaims after going on stage and getting behind the synthesizers. All the way from Minneapolis, Manny Bhefto asks people to clap: “What’s up, Havana?” It’s Friday night at Havana’s Fabrica de Arte Cubano, a venue of the Les Voix Humaines Festival.
Read MorePreparing for a concert in Cuba? Mick Jagger, the leader of the famous British band The Rolling Stones, is visiting the Caribbean island, reports dpa news on Monday. The Stones are hoping to hold their first concert in Havana next Spring.
Read MoreYordanka Ariosa of Cuba won the San Sebastian Film Festival award for Best Actress on Saturday for her role as a prostitute in “The King of Havana”, adapted by director Agusti Villaronga from the novel with the same name by Pedro Juan Guitiérrez.
Read MoreIn different ways, Pedro Juan Gutierrez offers us a self-portrait in each of his books. On this occasion, he intentionally announces it with the title of Fabian y el caos (“Fabian and Chaos”), his most recent novel, just launched in Spain. Published by Anagrama, the novel scrutinizes a past more distant than the one tackled in the author’s Dirty Havana Trilogy.
Read MoreSony Music Entertainment and the Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales (EGREM) signed a historical agreement on Tuesday in Havana that will allow many Cuban musicians and recordings to enter the international market through the wide door of the US music industry.
Read MoreI’ve been alerting readers to the imminence of a major, worldwide crisis for years now. Those of us concerned with this issue have a special interest in the Middle Ages, as we believe that a global crisis could bring about another Dark Age. After thinking about this for long, I came across a group of young Cubans who perform medieval music. Ensemble Medieval Lauda granted me an interview.
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