In 1996, two musicians from the African nation of Mali were expected to arrive in Havana for a recording session that never happened. The relatively unknown Malians were scheduled to work on an ...

Surprise is the one reaction you don’t anticipate from an Eliades Ochoa album. Admiration, yes. But you don’t expect the unexpected. If anything the master of the Cuban country son usually errs on the ...

Marisol Blanco performs in the traditional Afro-Cuban dress inspired by Yemayá, an African mother deity of the seas." For the last 12 years, Marisol Blanco has been fighting against numbers.

For well over 50 years, Cuban music has been popular on the African continent, a big influence on African sounds. PAPE FALL is a Senegalese singer who leads a rough and ready salsa band with a punchy ...

I’m just now getting back to my regular work, kids and household routine since returning from my trip to Africa. Every day, I run into someone who asks, “How was your trip?” What was it like hiking Mt ...

One of the greatest African musicians passed away last Thursday, at around 03:00 am in a private clinic in Dakar. Laba Sosseh, a Gambian musician, will certainly be remembered as the most prominent ...

Forget cigars and Che Guevara of Cuba. Salsa, a sizzling mix of Latin and Afro-Caribbean rhythms, perfectly sums up multicultural Kampala lately. You can learn how to flick your ruffled dress like a ...

Laba Sosseh was a Gambian salsa singer and composer. He was the undisputed master of African Salsa Music and the inventor of Salsa Mbalax dance music, Star band and Africando in Senegal. To many, Laba ...

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