Casteñeda, 68, is Madison’s godfather of Latin jazz. He came to the city in 1974 to study at the University of ...

A new historical marker in Miami Beach pays tribute to his younger years, before Hollywood, when as a Cuban émigré he ...

Sheila E. is a portrait of motion. Not just the movement of her body as one of the world’s most recognized drummers, but also ...

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 through October 15) we’ve created a playlist featuring artists of ...

According to Ramos, it was as if that quintessentially Cuban music had “stopped in time” with the Revolution in 1959, preserved in amber for the Buena Vista artists and others who followed ...

The protest symbol "Raise It Mayeta," which captures the grievances of the people of Santiago de Cuba sent to independent journalist Yosmany Mayeta Labrada, has taken a new form as a protest conga.

After the start of the Cuban Revolution, Cruz and La Sonora Matancera were getting ready to travel ... In 1983, she recorded Tremendo Trío with conga master Ray Barretto and singer Adalberto Santiago, ...

Two decades ago, while hip-hop maintained its cultural dominance, reggaetón began to carve out a niche in the global music scene, and— deeply connected to his Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage and known ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Local band Conjunto Philadelphia brings the music of pre-revolutionary Cuba to life ... available and includes instruments from congas and timbales to trumpet and upright ...

the all-female group Obiní Batá started breaking social conventions and fighting stereotypes in Cuba by teaching generations of Cuban women how to play Afro-Cuban drums. The World’s Tibisay Zea brings ...