A group of Cuban musicians, including one imprisoned in Cuba, won song of the year at the Latin Grammy awards on Thursday for their song "Patria y Vida" — garnering even more international attention ...

Music has always played a role in Mark Cuban's life, but there's one track that holds special significance. The DMX song "Fame" resonates deeply with Cuban's journey, capturing the challenges and ...

A group of Cuban musicians including reggaeton duo Gente de Zona on Thursday won Song of the Year in the 2021 Latin Grammy Awards for 'Patria y Vida,' a defiant hip-hop song that has become the anthem ...

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A British high court is considering a case that involves a dispute over copyright royalties for the Cuban songs featured on the Buena Vista Social Club album released in 1997. An American publishing ...

Kiki Valera figured out pretty early in his 54 years that music was going to be his life. After all, he was born into a Cuban family that had been playing and preserving traditional sounds of the ...

Cuban singer-songwriter Estrella Acosta invites us into her journey this way: "The smell of mangos and guavas brings back memories of my childhood and reminds me of the sound of Cuban country music ...

February 15 -- Welsh rockers the Manic Street Preachers made preparations today in Cuba for the biggest show by a Western band on the Caribbean island since Billy Joel performed there in 1979. One of ...

There are two degrees of separation between Cuba and me. As a second-generation Cuban American, I have been caught in my grandparents’ tumble between the land and sea, stuck in an obnoxious wave, ...

More than three decades have passed since the song Nuestro Día: Ya viene llegando (“Our Day is Coming”) composed by Willy Chirino in the early 90s was released in the Cuban public sphere, becoming not ...

Hip-hop song "Patria y Vida" ("Homeland and Life") won the Latin Grammy for song of the year Thursday night, months after it became an anthem for anti-government protests in Cuba. The song also won a ...