Celebrated Cuban trumpet player Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal of the music collective Buena Vista Social Club, died in Havana on ...
“Bach? Beethoven? We’ve got better,” Mandela once said of the musician who just turned 90.
Cuban Reggaeton singer El Taiger died Thursday in a “senseless violent crime,” nearly a week after he was mysteriously discovered inside a car suffering from a gunshot wound to his forehead.
El Taiger’s story has ended in tragedy. One week after the Cuban Reggaeton singer—whose real name was José Manuel Carbajal Zaldívar—was brought to the hospital after being found with a ...
A popular "urbano" singer who mixed reggaeton with traditional Cuban music, he was known for songs such as "La Historia," "Papelito" and "Habla Matador." "We bid farewell to one of the most ...
But the U.S. smothered the idea, and last “week in Miami the exile groups, still planning their daring and desperate forays against Castro’s Cuba, reported that, if anything, the U.S. was ...
Giménez said in a post on X that he fully condemned the “pathetic, hateful attack against our Cuban exile community in Miami,” adding that the perpetrators “must be brought to justice!” ...
Having assembled the entourage with bandleader Jesus “Aguaje” Ramos, he was sure the group’s ability to present a multi-generational performance of the very traditional dance music of Cuba ...
Increasing state repression has forced multiple Cuban journalists into exile, a troubling sign for the future of independent media on the island. This statement was originally published on cpj.org on ...