A pattern is starting to appear in Cimafunk’s album titles. The Afro-Cuban funk artist named his 2017 debut “Terapia,” or “Therapy,” and his 2021, Grammy-nominated follow-up was called “El Alimento,” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Musician Cimafunk will return to Festival International in Lafayette this year for the 40th anniversary. The ...

Last year’s CimaFest NOLA was a chance for Cimafunk to tie together a lot of his life and work. He had recently made New Orleans a new homebase, and he along with his band La Tribu and a stage full of ...

If you’ve listened to our show, you know our theme music is the work of PALO! That’s PALO! with an exclamation point because the music’s like a jolt of Cuban coffee. Its founder Steve Roitstein is the ...

The cover of the newly reissued 1977 LP Yoyi, originally released by Jorge Soler León under the name Grupo los Yoyi Credit: Courtesy of Future Rootz Medina grew up in Cuba, but his voracious appetite ...

Grammy-nominated Cuban musician Cimafunk is bringing his Afro-Cuban rhythms and Black American funk energy to West Palm Beach this Friday. Dubbed the James Brown of Cuba, Cimafunk — who has jammed ...

The third annual CimaFest NOLA is set to take place at The Civic Theatre on Friday, May 2, 2025, during the second weekend of Jazz Fest. The event will feature Grammy-nominated Afro-Cuban funk artist ...

Hear a conversation between the Cuban musician and Alt.Latino host Felix Contreras from NPR Music's 15th anniversary celebration at the 9:30 Club... One of the most significant things I learned in ...

Miami fusion collective Palo! spells its band name just like that — exclamation mark and all. But just like the completely musically unrelated Mayday! — also from Miami, about whom we posted a little ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Musician Cimafunk will return to Festival International in Lafayette this year for the 40th anniversary. The eccentric performer moved to New Orleans and caught up with WGNO’s ...

Cimafunk: How his Afro-Cuban funk tells a bigger story about the African diaspora : Alt.Latino Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras sit down with Cimafunk to talk about how he's created his singular ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Musician Cimafunk will return to Festival International in Lafayette this year for the 40th anniversary. The eccentric performer moved to New Orleans and caught up with WGNO’s ...