Tag Archives: Cuban Traditions

Orquesta Initial de Manzanillo provide a book reworking of Cuban child, the mixture of African-influenced percussion and Spanish melody.

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 …

During a lot more than five decades of carrying out, the vocal innovations of Miguelito Valdes produced him among Latin music’s most popular artists. He began performing in 1927 having a few amateur organizations, then made the decision music was his profession while in Panama through the early ’30s. In …

Ray organized his octet in 1963. He was regarded a virtuoso pianist, music arranger, and composer, whose music group enjoyed tremendous sketching power and was one of the better retailers in the ’60s and ’70s.

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 …

Probably the finest & most exciting Cuban dance band of the 1990s, NG La Banda formed in 1988 and continues to be led simply by flute player José Luis Cortés since. Including many amazing musicians who experienced formerly used Irakere and Los Vehicle Vehicle, the group is well known for …

Innovative Cuban violinist, flautist, singer, music group leader, arranger, composer Legarreta was an integral participant in the first 60s pachanga/charanga craze, middle-70s to early 80s charanga revival and NY descarga movement. Like a son he payed for violin tuition by operating like a barber, which his dad urged him to …

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 …