Pablo Milanes

Spanish Soprano Montserrat Performing in Miami Beach Wednesday

Mercedes Wins

Bottom of the Heap O Top of the World

Just how popular is Juan Luis Guerra? If you have to ask, you haven't been listening.

Across the Great Divide

How one record label delivers something good from Castro's Cuba to the U.S.

Xiomara Laugart

How one record label delivers something good from Castro's Cuba to the U.S.

Redefining Caribbean

Siete Rayo, a simply sophisticated example of Afro-Cuban fusion

Front Page News

With his latest album, En Primera Plana, recent Cuban defector and popular sonero Issac Delgado starts over in the States

No Band Is an Island

Habana Abierta, the supergroup made up of Cuba's premier rock and roll pioneers, prepares for international stardom

The New Classics

Celebrating some of 2003's best efforts in Latin music

Ricardo Arjona

Santo Pecado "Sony International"

At Long Last

Thanks to new local label Duque Productions, two of Miami's most talented musicians will finally be heard

Luis Fonsi

Fight the Feeling (MCA/Universal)

Ahí Todavía

The timba boom of the Nineties may have subsided, but salsa's smoothest voice is still here

Now It's Trova Time

The tinkling sound of that romantic, political, poetic nuevo Cuban music comes to Tobacco Road

Shake

If it ain't your party, you better fight for your rights

Various

Before Night Falls Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Blue Thumb Records

Shake

From Calle 54 to Calle Ocho

Carlos Cruz's Second Act

In his native Cuba he was a film star. Here in the States he's just another car salesman with a dream.

No More Batalla

Issac Delgado returns to a kinder, gentler Miami

Shipwreck Songs

Fito Paez and the salvation of the absurd

The Salsa Doctor Is Out

Finding one of Cuba's most famous stars on either side of the Florida Straits can be downright impossible, as the musician navigates between big dreams and political realities

Letters to the Editor

From the issue of July 27, 2000

Bohemian Rhapsody

Has Café Nostalgia lost that lovin' filin'?

Lady Liberty

Tania Libertad

Private Lessons

Tania Libertad

Bring on the Cubans!

The Castro government is marketing music, and the whole world is buying. Except Miami.

Letters

The Castro government is marketing music, and the whole world is buying. Except Miami.

Nightclub Jitters

Home Economics

­Viva Albita!

You might think Cuba's glorious traditional music is hundreds of yeas old. You're wrong. It's 31. It's wearing tight jeans. And it's called Albita Rodriguez.

Five Nueva Trova Treasures by Pablo Milanes, Playing August 25 Show in Miami

​The issue of the arts within Cuba is a polarizing one. And you'd be hard pressed to find a more politically charged art form out of the island than Nueva Trova, which was more than just a genre following the revolution that put Castro in power in 1959. It was a movement, and a mode of expression ... More >>

Cuba's Folkie

​The issue of the arts within Cuba is a polarizing one. And you'd be hard pressed to find a more politically charged art form out of the island than Nueva Trova, which was more than just a genre following the revolution that put Castro in power in 1959. It was a movement, and a mode of expression ... More >>

Pablo Milanes at the American Airlines Arena August 27

​The issue of the arts within Cuba is a polarizing one. And you'd be hard pressed to find a more politically charged art form out of the island than Nueva Trova, which was more than just a genre following the revolution that put Castro in power in 1959. It was a movement, and a mode of expression ... More >>