Afro-Cubans (Spanish: Afrocubano) or Black Cubans are Cubans of full or partial sub-Saharan African ancestry. The term Afro-Cuban can also refer to historical...
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in Cuba.: 59 In the early 1970s, Kenny Dorham and his Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna, and later Irakere, brought Afro-Cuban jazz into the Cuban music...
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Afro-Cuban All Stars is a Cuban band led by Juan de Marcos González. Their music is a mix of all the styles of Cuban music, including bolero, chachachá...
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Afro-Cuban jazz first emerged in the early 1940s, with the Cuban musicians Mario Bauza and Frank Grillo "Machito" in the band Machito and his Afro-Cubans,...
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African popular music (redirect from Afro pop)
clave-based Cuban popular music sounded both familiar and exotic. The Encyclopedia of Africa v. 1. states: "Beginning in the 1940s, Afro-Cuban [son] groups...
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Afro-Cuban is an album by American jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham, recorded for Blue Note on March 29, 1955 and released later that year on the Blue Note...
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events, the secular yambú was adopted into this Afro-Cuban religion. Many of the rhythmic innovations in Cuban popular music, from the early twentieth century...
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band founded by Machito in 1940 Afro-Cuban All Stars, a Cuban band formed in 1996 Cabildo (Cuba) Emancipados Haitian Cuban This disambiguation page lists...
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Cuban American populations. Florida (2,000,000 in 2023) has the highest concentration of Cuban Americans in the United States. Over 1,200,000 Cuban-Americans...
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Jazz (section Afro-Cuban influence)
African-American music began incorporating Afro-Cuban rhythmic motifs in the 19th century when the habanera (Cuban contradanza) gained international popularity...
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