Héctor Valentín: Me Quité

Héctor Valentín: Me Quité

September 7, 2021

Where Music Never Stops Listening Post 317. More than coffee or summer rain, Cuba is drenched in music. It emanates from bars and homes, along Havana’s Malécon, from the streets and squares of cities and towns, from the public buses that weave through the countryside....
José Alberto (El Ruiseñor): Mi Tumbao

José Alberto (El Ruiseñor): Mi Tumbao

May 18, 2021

Provincial Classic Listening Post 303. A freedom-fighting poet named Perucho Figueredo wrote La Bayamesa, Cuba’s national anthem, on horseback in 1867, after Spanish authorities surrendered to pro-independence forces in Bayamo. More than 150 years on, the city—located...