BRUSHING OFF BIG BROTHER A Cuban barber shaves a customer at his privately owned shop in Havana. COMMENTARY Re-engaging Cuba doesn't "knock the wind" out of last summer's Patria y Vida movement. If ...
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, ...
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 ...
While there were a lot of performances worth watching tonight, nothing moved us more than the acoustic-rendition performance of "Patria y Vida" by Cuban artists Randy Malcom, Alexander Delgado of ...
Leaders from South Florida and throughout the state are marking the one-year anniversary of the unprecedented anti-government protests that swept through Cuba. Thousands of people took to the streets ...
Quick music history quiz; what do the songs “Yankee Doodle Dandy” and NWA’s “Fuck The Police” have in common? Give up? They’re both protest songs. ”Yankee Doodle” was originally a British song mocking ...
At that precise moment, Osorbo was sitting in Kilo 5 Y Medio, a maximum-security prison in the rural, tobacco-rich region of Pinar del Río, Cuba, far from the glamour and glitterati of the awards show ...
This is the first of two reports on a potent new synergy between protests and protest music in Latin America — from Cuba to Colombia, from San Juan to Santiago. The music helped galvanize protests; ...
The lyrics pack in plenty of historical and current references, so we turned to Miami-based Cuban-American musician Lilly Blanco to translate the lyrics and annotate the references. The most important ...
A year ago, thousands of people in Cuba took to the streets in an unprecedented protest, calling for the end of dictatorship as they shouted “Patria y Vida” and “Libertad.” For days, people gathered ...
Nov 18 (Reuters) - 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 ...
(Reuters) -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 ...