MIAMI (AP) – In his most famous song, "The Bridge," Cuban salsa singer Manuel "Manolín" González croons about creating a bridge between Miami and Havana. "A bridge made up of long sleeves," he sings. ...
One by one, musicians from the renowned Cuban salsa band "Los Van Van" made their way past immigration officials at Miami International Airport and into the bright lights and cameras of the ...
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In my experience, without the help of large quantities of tequila, the club murders the groove and awkwardly shuffles on its grave. How come ‘going out dancing’ involves no dancing at all? The death ...
Timba, a Cuban cousin of Salsa is popular worldwide, but never really caught on in LA. That might be changing, if a hard-working Timba band keeps finding new fans. In the early 1990s, “Timba”, a new ...
MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — A Cuban singer who lived in the U.S. for several years after being banned from Cuban airwaves is back in Miami for a performance in Little Havana. Manuel Gonzalez — also known as ...
MIAMI — In his most famous song, Cuban salsa singer Manuel Gonzalez croons about creating a bridge between Miami and Havana. "A bridge made up of long sleeves," he sings in "The Bridge." ''So that the ...
Tokyo, Japan – Victor Rodriguez, a Cuban musician, had planned a short stay in Japan with his band to try and make money teaching salsa dance to desiring Japanese. But 11 years later, he finds himself ...
New York's Latin music giant Joe Cuba died Sunday at age 78, after a long illness. As prolific as he was influential, Cuba was one of the main pioneers of the Latin soul movement in the 1960s, which ...
The entrance might still read "Salsa Mediterranean Restaurant & Lounge," but the new Shoppes at Vanderbilt eatery is Cuban through and through. The menu features all the traditional Cuban favorites, ...
HAVANA (AP) — Hundreds of people on Tuesday attended a Mass in Havana to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Celia Cruz’s birth just days after Cuban authorities canceled a theater performance in honor ...
Miami – On the spur of the moment, a singer in a Cuban salsa band had an idea for a lyric to please fellow Trump supporters at a Miami birthday party. Tirso Luis Paez flicked his hand so his band ...