In 1960, New York became the melting pot for Afro-Cuban rhythms by default. Cut off from La Habana, La Gran Manzana became the birthplace of salsa. Meanwhile, far from stagnating, Cubans behind the ...

José Luis Cortés, "one of the most important figures in contemporary Cuban music," died on April 18 in Havana, Cuba per the Instituto Cubano de la Música Jack Irvin has over five years of experience ...

To say Issac Delgado is the epitome of Cuba's timba music undermines the scope of his talent. "I don't feel I'm a timbero," said Delgado, known as El Chevere de la Salsa (Salsa's Mr. Cool), by ...

Timba, a Cuban cousin of Salsa is popular worldwide, but never really caught on in LA. That might be changing, if a hard-working Timba band keeps finding new fans. In the early 1990s, “Timba”, a new ...

It’s not easy for them, but the members of Tiempo Libre are learning to control their energy. The seven-piece Miami band of Cuban expats pride themselves on the rhythmic explosiveness of their timba ...

One of the biggest names in Cuban music has defected from the island with his wife and children and is living in Tampa, the LA Times reports in today’s paper. Issac Delgado has been called “the heart ...

I try not to be too biased when it comes to Latin music. But it’s hard to stay impartial when you’re Cuban. After all, we’re talking about one tiny island responsible for so many ass-shaking styles of ...

Question: What do you get if you mix contemporary Cuban music with jazz? A relatively new genre called timba, says Jorge Gómez, the pianist and director of Tiempo Libre, a timba group he started in ...

What Southern Californians should know about the war of words between the US and North Korea Verbal sparring between the leaders of the U.S. and North Korea has escalated this week. Rhetoric began to ...

In 1995, life in Cuba was really getting to Jorge Gomez. “We didn’t have food or money or electricity. We didn’t have anything. I don’t know how we survived.” It was after the collapse of the Soviet ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Beneath the reserved Anglo-Saxon facade of Sydney's men lurks a hot-blooded Latino just waiting for the chance to triple-turn his ...