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Ed Morales (reporting from San Juan, Puerto Rico, for The New York Times) writes about Daymé Arocena and her musical trajectory. He says, “The prodigious jazz singer came to embrace her inner pop star on a new album made with Visitante from Calle 13.” Running her fingers through her dreadlocks in an outdoor cafe overlooking…
14yMedio reports from Havana via the Havana Times: Writing ‘Diaz-Canel, Motherf*cker’ can get a Cuban 15-years There are many places in the USA where you can see Trump supporters’ graffiti, bumper stickers or signs saying F*ck Biden, but nobody pays much attention. In Cuba, just criticizing one of the country’s communist leaders, living or dead,
Celia Cruz, Cuban American singer who reigned for years as the ‘Queen of Salsa Music,’ electrifying audiences with her wide-ranging soulful voice and rhythmically compelling music. ‘Quimbara’ was one of her signature songs. Read more about Cruz’s life and career.
In what just a few years ago would've been unheard of, Cubans are making their anger known over the communist Castro dictatorship's inability to provide basic electrical service. The sound of banging pots pierced the night this past Fridays as Cubans came out to express their indignation over having to spend another night without electricity.
For her impact on Latin music internationally, Cruz will be minted on the U.S. quarter as a part of the U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters Program.