Pablo Milanés, the Latin Grammy-winning balladeer who helped found Cuba’s “nueva trova” movement and toured the world as a cultural ambassador for Fidel Castro’s revolution, has died in Spain, where ...

Though the Communist authorities do not acknowledge it, for five decades state radio stations have blacklisted musicians who abandoned Fidel Castro’s 1959 Revolution and/or spoke out against it, the ...

During Cuba’s so-called Special Period, the terrible economic crisis that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, Willy Chirino’s song “Ya viene llegando” became a hymn of hope for many Cubans who ...