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Sam Eifling (sam.eifling@voicemediagroup.com)

When Cuban jazz musician Alfredo Rodríguez crossed the Mexican border into the United States in January of 2009, he had a pretty unusual reason for doing so: He was going to make music with Quincy Jones.
By Celia AlmeidaOctober 25, 2018
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Before rejoining Miami New Times as culture editor in 2025, Celia Almeida freelanced for the paper starting in 2016, then came aboard as a staff editor in 2018. Beginning in late 2019, she served as digital editor for Ink. Her writing has been featured in Billboard, Consequence, Paper, and Rolling Stone, among other outlets.

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