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Sounds from Havana: A brief history of Cuban music

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4.33.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Alt.Latino's Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras visited Cuba and give us an audio-rich tour of Havana.

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Felix, you know I had a Cuban restaurant I used to go to when I was a kid and it was called Felix's.

0:23.0

You're kidding.

0:24.0

Yeah.

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They still know me because I love the Arrosconletche so much.

0:28.0

Well, you have to tell them now that you actually had a chance to go to Havana with Felix.

0:37.3

From NPR music, this is all Latino.

0:40.4

I'm Felix Contreras.

0:42.0

And I'm Anomaria Sayer let the Chishme begin and this week the Chishme had a Cuban accent because that was the sound of us in Havana Cuba in late January when you and I and NPR Music Executive

0:53.8

producer Serra Mohammed went on a quote unquote vacation.

0:58.1

Yeah, real vacation with coworkers feeling.

1:00.9

It worked.

1:01.8

That was a lot of fun. We went toward the 39th annual Jazz Plaza,

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the big international jazz festival there, where we took in lots of music and got a chance to see a lot of Cuba.

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We stayed in Havana and got to see one of the oldest cities in

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Latin America. Honestly Felix I was completely unprepared. I have never seen a

1:20.9

city like this one of the most impressive places I've ever been

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with the colorful colonial buildings, the old cars,

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it's really amazing.

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And it was a lot of fun to get your impressions

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because that was your first visit I've been there three

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