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 ...

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 ...

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,” ...

There are two sides to the Cuban artist Erik Iglesias Rodríguez, who performs as Cimafunk. "Cima" is an homage to the cimarrón, a word that refers to Cubans of African descent who escaped enslavement.

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 ...

The renowned Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés has firmly asserted that "Bacalao con Pan" is the progenitor of timba music. In a video segment shared on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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