Though 22-year-old Manuel Leandro is one of Cuba’s youngest folk musicians today, he could well be described as one of the most talented, part of a generation that hasn’t yet defined itself as one.
Read MoreJustin Bieber says he is somewhere in Cuba today, possibly getting away from the legal mess created by some eggs splashed on the house of his neighbor in Calabasas, California.
Read MoreThe Cuban visual arts collective 3STADO Solido has teamed up with US fine arts professor Harriet Frank to offer us Los misterios de la naturaleza (“The Mysteries of Nature”), a highly interesting exhibition open to viewing until the end of the month. (20 photos)
Read MoreThe 14-piece Brown University Jazz Band has been spending this week in Havana on a cultural exchange that brings them in personal contact with musicians of the island. The visit is sponsored by the university’s Music Department and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Read MoreHavana’s Casa de las Americas Center has kicked off the New Year with the launching of a controversial book: Estela and Ernesto Bravos’ Operacion Peter Pan, cerrando el circulo en Cuba (“Operation Peter Pan: Closing the Circle in Cuba”).
Read MoreNearly five centuries old, the city of Havana boasts a highly eclectic architecture, drawing from styles as different as the Gothic, futurism, the Baroque, cubism and art deco. The pictures show some of the city’s most renowned buildings and monuments, (39 photos)
Read More“Good evening everyone. My name is Jorge Landa, and this is the second Beauty and Cuban Culture Pageant. It is an honor to be able to welcome you to our show tonight.” Thus began the evening at Havana’s Teatro America on the last Saturday of 2013. (24 photos)
Read MoreJorge Aragon is a virtuoso of the instrument, a young musician with a very contemporary vision of Cuban Jazz. “My father was the inspiration that led me to the piano. He gave me a gift that he had, the taste and sensitive way of taking on the instrument. A way of playing a little simply, you could say, but at the same time comes very close to people, and that’s something that schools do not teach.” he said in his interview with HT.
Read More“I would like to be able to come to Cuba more often. I have many Cuban friends I have worked with in the course of my career,” said Vladimir Malakhov in his interview with HT.
Read MoreAriel Diaz is one of the few artists belonging to Cuba’s “lost generation” of folk musicians who has enjoyed an acceptable degree of publicity. His lyrics are profound and emotive, as befits his critical spirit and versatility.
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