Chucho Valdés delivered a captivating solo performance at NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert, where he showcased his profound mastery and improvisational skills on the piano. He kicked off with the classic 1978 ...

HAVANA – Flora Villareal, 67, part of a cohort of Cubans who graduated from an experimental piano tuning program for the blind and visually impaired in 1970, is still plying her trade half a century ...

Cuban pianist, composer, and arranger Zahili Zamora shares music that celebrates her background. Pianist and vocalist Zahili Gonzalez Zamora, electric bassist and vocalist Gerson Lazo-Quiroga, drummer ...

The culmination of his journey as a young Havana-native who continues and brings the Afro-Cuban music legacy to New York is synthesized in his latest album “The Grand Concourse,” a name inspired by ...

Harold López-Nussa is learning the art of embracing change. The world-class pianist made the big leap and moved from his home in Cuba to France, where he began a new life. “It’s a lot different,” ...

Growing up in Havana in the 1970s violinist Ilmar Gavilán and his younger brother, pianist Aldo López-Gavilán, experienced music as a powerfully binding force. Playing and composing was a family ...

An eager gleam lights up pianist Dayramir Gonzalez’s eyes when he describes his teenage realization that music would give him the power to shape and transform his listeners’ emotions. Growing up in ...

When he was 8 years old, Harold Lopez-Nussa began taking piano lessons in his hometown of Havana, Cuba. After spending years performing classical piano with the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra, ...

Last year, Robbie Robertson played “The Weight” with musicians around the world, including Ringo Starr, Japanese guitar virtuoso Char, Congo soul singer Mermens Mosengo, and others. It’s been streamed ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Flora Villareal, 67, part of a cohort of Cubans who graduated from an experimental piano tuning program for the blind and visually impaired in 1970, is still plying her trade half a ...