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Yissy Garcia & Bandancha at Tiny Desk (NPR Music)

Tiny Desk Yissy García & Bandancha June 15, 20185:00 AM ET Felix Contreras There is a sonic revolution happening in Cuba these days. A new generation of musicians are taking the training they received in Cuba’s fabled classical music academies to new heights by incorporating not just jazz, but hip-hop,[…]

From Cuba With Love: Yissy Garcia And Bandancha’s ‘Universo’ (NPR Music)

April 20, 201812:21 PM ET By: Gabriela Sierra Alonso Since diplomatic relations broke off between the United States and Cuba in 1961, musical exchange between both countries has been largely left, outside of tours, to the underground. Yissy García remembers her father, Bernardo García — a co-founder of Irakere, one[…]

Cuban Culture Comes to Kennedy Center (Downbeat)

By John Murph   May 29, 2018   7:29 PM Fábrica De Arte Cubano, a former cooking-oil plant turned multimedia-arts venue, is one of the most fabulous places in Havana, Cuba. Located in the city’s Vedado neighborhood, the place pulsates with contemporary art, high fashion, dancing, film instillations, DJ culture and[…]

Young Artists Keeping Cuba’s Traditional Music Alive

“All the rhythms that we make aren’t pure,” she explains. “They’re more like developed rhythms, more fusion. For example, we love to use a street conga and mix it with a little drum and bass, funk; mix it up with the rumba. The tradition of Cuba is very strong to[…]

Yissy with Bandaancha at Speakeasy

SXSW presented five Cuban bands direct from Havana on Friday night and the result was nothing short of amazing. To cut costs, four different bands used more or less the same rhythm section of bass, drums and keyboards. Afro-Cuban vocalist Daymé Arocena invoked the spirits of the orishas with her[…]

5 Women who rocked last day of SXSW

By Nancy Flores Yissy: Yissy García first got on my radar at the Sounds from Cuba showcase Friday night where her hip Afro-Latin jazz fusion band Yissy & Bandancha performed. She not only has mad percussive skills, but also leads the group. She’s the daughter of musical hero Bernardo García, who[…]

Yissy Garcia: The girl is a drummer and boy, she can play

by Fernando González The daughter of Bernardo García, an influential drummer in Cuban music, charter member of the fabled Afro-Cuban jazz rock group Irakere and trumpeter Arturo Sandoval’s band, Yissy García was supposed to be a dancer, a ballerina. Her brother was the designated heir in the family. “They would[…]