Tagged With: Cuban music
Covering This Week: Susana Baca & Carlos Varela at Lincoln Center
Text: Julie Schwietert Collazo Photo: Screenshot of Susana Baca album, “Eco de Sombras” ** In the world of “Latin music,” Susana Baca and Carlos Varela are both big names. Baca is an Afro-Peruvian singer whose songs tell “the story of African identity as transplanted, transformed and even repressed in her native country.”* Varela is a … Continue reading
Peace Without Borders Concert in Havana/Concierto Paz Sin Fronteras en La Habana
Photos: Brayan Collazo Alonso Text Edited by: Julie Schwietert Collazo [vease abajo para la version en español] Colombian singer Juanes, along with Puerto Rican singer Olga Tanon and Spanish singer Miguel Bose, organized the Paz Sin Fronteras/Peace Without Borders concert that took place in Havana today. For Cubans and for people around Latin America, the … Continue reading
Bohemia
Text & Photos: Francisco Collazo Translation: Julie Schwietert Collazo ** If I associate Mexico with the “danzon” dances in public parks on Sundays, I associate Puerto Rico with its romantic “bohemias” on Thursdays and weekends. Before, this word “bohemia” held allusions to the past. I imagined a singer in the middle of a medieval garden, … Continue reading
Have You Heard of Buika?/Conoces a Buika?
Text & Photos: Francisco Collazo Translation: Julie Schwietert Collazo [vease abajo para la version en espanol] ** She lives in Spain, she’s black, young, from a poor neighborhood, born to immigrants, a woman. An absent father. African. Her stage name is Buika. María Concepción Balboa Buika performed at New York City’s Lincoln Center Out of … Continue reading
Havana Film Festival New York: The Pre-Party!
Text: Julie Schwietert Collazo * The Havana Film Festival of New York kicks off tonight with a cocktail reception and the screening of four short films: “G Boys” (from Puerto Rico); “The Sad Churro Family” (from Puerto Rico); “Hispaniola” (Dominican Republic); and “Crossing Numbers” (a joint production between the US and Spain). Francisco and I … Continue reading
