Havana, May 18 (Prensa Latina) The Cubadisco 2022 award, granted by professionals of the phonographic industry in the country, honors the best productions of the year, as part of its 25th edition that takes place in this capital.
Complementing our Best Albums of 2021 article here is our list of the best compilations, as voted for by our writers. As opposed to our Best Albums list, which is confined to new music, this one highlights some of the rarities that have been discovered in Latin American vaults, the search to find something different. <a class="view-article" href="https://soundsandcolours.com/subjects/music/best-compilations-of-2021-64462/">Read Article</a>
Cuba is the island that taught America how to dance. For much of the 20th century it provided the United States (and, by extension, the Western world) with every key dance craze: the mambo, the rumba, the cha-cha-cha, the charanga, the bugalu. When jazz moved into the concert halls it was the Afro-Cuban influence that kept bebop on the dancefloor. And, throughout the 1940s and â50s Havana was where American hedonists went to party.
But then came Fidel, and Che, and the 1959 revolution, and the Bay Of Pigs invasion, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. And that cultural dialogue between Cuba and the US came to a halt. Cuba carried on in isolation, besieged by US sanctions, no longer visited by jazz royalty, no longer the playground of American playboys and gangsters. Its most famous musicians â singer