One by one, musicians from the renowned Cuban salsa band "Los Van Van" made their way past immigration officials at Miami International Airport and into the bright lights and cameras of the ...

Reparto is rooted in timba, a classic Cuban sound that exploded in the Nineties and fuses Cuban son, salsa, funk, Afro-Cuban ...

Cuban-American trumpet player Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros is a walking salsa music encyclopedia. He may not have been present at the birth of the genre in 1928 (he was four years old) but the ...

The phenomenon has led to the rise of new genres, including the highly commercial “reparto," a genre that originated in Havana’s working-class neighborhoods and is known for its explicit lyrics ...

HAVANA -- Cuban teenagers Fabio and Diego Abreu seem shy at first, but the moment they step on stage, they become confident, ...

It never surprises Juan De Marcos Gonzalez when audiences who don't speak a word of Spanish -- and have no connection with his Cuban culture -- find it impossible not to get up and dance at one of his ...

EDMONDS, Wash. -The Edmonds Community College Jazz and Salsa Band hopes the language of music will translate into a once in a lifetime trip to the country of Cuba. “As soon as I heard the doors were ...

Salsa band leader Joe Cuba, dubbed the “Father of Latin Boogaloo" for weaving a fluid, bilingual mix of musical influences, died Sunday in New York City, a member of his group said. He was 78. The ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Issac Delgado, one of Cuba's most popular salsa bandleaders, has defected to the United States to pursue an international career, a former associate said on Friday. Delgado, 44, is ...