AfroCuban – Havana Music School

Fusing musical genres has been very common in Cuba. Thus was born the Afro-Cuban jazz mixing some bebop seasoned with son montuno. This subgenre...

Percussion in Cuba, as we know it today, has its origins in the first African slaves residing on the island. With their arrival came also their...

Ramón Santamaría Rodríguez, also known as Mongo Santamaria, born on April 7th, 1917 in the Havana neighborhood of Jesus Maria. From his childhood...

The percussion has been one of the main branches of AfroCuban music developed on the island. The fame of the Cuban percussionists has reached an...

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