Tag Archives: Afro-Cuban

From inauspicious beginnings as the weekend house band at a Dakar club for authorities officials, Senegal’s Orchestra Baobab, named for the club (which took its name from your native baobob tree), continued to become among the seminal bands of globe music, with an influence that extended far beyond their national …

The rumba continues to be backwards and forwards over the Atlantic normally as ships can make it, but Ricardo Lemvo has added a fresh touch, bringing himself over from Zaire to try out the mixture of Cuban and Western world African sounds in the U.S. Delivered in Kinshasa, the administrative …

Oakland, California local vocalist/guitarist and arranger Pablo Guyséndez formed Mezcla (“mix” in Spanish) in 1985. As defined by their name, Mezcla perform a variety of Afro-Caribbean rhythms, traditional jazz, and rock and roll. In 2002, the globe music-oriented label Khaeon released their record ¡Akimba!, documented live at Havana’s La Zorra …

A collective venture located in NEW YORK, Radio Mundial was founded in the past due 90s by vocalist and guitarist Jean Shepherd, who’s of Puerto Rican and Peruvian descent, and DJ and maker Alexi Delano, whose origins are Chilean and Swedish. They produced two effective singles on RX Information and …

The original rhythms of Cuba’s horn-driven bands from the ’50s is raised to date by trumpet player Jesús Alemañy and his 15-piece band ¡Cubanismo!. The group’s 1996 self-titled debut record reached the very best Ten lists of Billboard, Latin Defeat and Afropop Worldwide and produced ¡Cubanismo! among the most popular …

The sometime vocalist for Orchestra Baobab in addition has enjoyed a favorite solo career, powered by his brilliant lyrics and powerful tone of voice. So popular provides he become, actually, that he’s often the victim of a bad flourishing trade in pirated cassette recordings. Seck provides used the pirates to …

Worldbeat musician Wayne Gorbea styles African-oriented stylings inside Cuban traditional music for a fantastic musical vibe to complement famous brands mainstream Cuban hard hitters. With a solid trombone section, Gorbea demonstrates various types of Latin-tinged looks for dance music and globe music as well and his utter structure was captured …

Rubén González was among the last of Cuba’s great Afro-Cuban piano players. Although he previously played and documented with the music group led by Enrique Jorrín, the originator from the cha-cha, for 25 % of a hundred years, he previously retired from music with the middle-’80s. Things begun to transformation …

Celina Gonzalez is among the great vocalists of Afro-Cuban music. Although small known beyond Cuba, Gonzalez is a main superstar in her homeland because the 1940s when she distributed a duo with her past due hubby, Reutillio Dominguez. In the 10 years prior to the Cuban Trend, Gonzalez and Dominguez …

Vocalist/songwriter Amaury Gutiérrez began finding thinking about music while even now in senior high school in Cuba. After earning a scholarship or grant, Gutiérrez started learning singing and later on piano and acoustic guitar. After shifting to Havana, the musician began working alongside trumpet participant Arturo Sandoval, later on joining …