The Cuban singer and bandleader Daymé Arocena is best known for her massive voice, a throaty bellow that has invited comparisons to Aretha Franklin and Celia Cruz, the queen divas themselves. But ...
Salsa, Mambo, Cha Cha Cha is set to wipe the standard nostalgic images of pre-revolutionary Cuba from theatre-goers minds. The music and dance in the video tease retains the rawness and spontaneity… ...
Reimagined in 1950s Cuba and directed by Christopher Renshaw, Carmen la Cubana will open at the Théâtre du Châtelet over 140 years after Paris debut It is Carmen, but not as we know it, and almost ...
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Compiled and produced by Nick Gold, who played a key role in the Buena Vista Social Club project, this is another reminder of Cuba’s extraordinary musical history. Abelardo Barroso died in 1972, but ...