• Rock and roll music was introduced in Cuba in the late 1950s, with many Cuban artists of the time covering American songs translated into Spanish, as...
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    The Cuban rock iguana (Cyclura nubila), also known as the Cuban ground iguana or Cuban iguana, is a species of lizard of the iguana family. It is the second...
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  • music on the Cuban younger generations gave way to the beginning of the soloists and groups of rock and roll in Cuba during the 1950s. Many Cuban artists sang...
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    The Cuban cactus scrub is a xeric shrubland ecoregion that occupies 3,300 km2 (1,300 sq mi) on the leeward coast of Cuba. Most of it occurs in the southeastern...
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  • Gorki may refer to: Gorki Águila (b. 1968), Cuban rock musician Gorki (band), a Belgian band of Luc De Vos Gorki (Kazan Metro), a station of the Kazan...
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  • Jazz fusion (redirect from Jazz-rock fusion)
    "Cubop", short for Cuban bebop. During its first decades, the Afro-Cuban jazz movement was stronger in the United States than in Cuba. According to bassist...
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    of 1917, the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the Cuban Assets Control Regulations of 1963, the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992, the Helms–Burton Act of 1996...
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    Porno para Ricardo (category Cuban rock music groups)
    Porn for Richard) is a Cuban rock band founded in 1998. It is considered to be one of the most visible examples of young Cubans disagreement with the Castro's...
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  • Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range...
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    of Cuban films Dance in Cuba Cuban National Ballet Literature of Cuba List of Cuban writers Music of Cuba Cuban folk music Cuban jazz Cuban rock Early...
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    home of choice of the endemic Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer), Cuban rock iguana (Cyclura nubila), and the Cuban hutias (Capromys family). A complete...
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    Chicano rock scene. Argentine rock Bolivian rock Chilean rock Colombian rock Costa Rican rock Cuban rock Dominican rock Ecuadorian rock Guatemalan rock Mexican...
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  • rock back in the days was Cuban links. So Rae came up with the theory, like a Cuban link is one of the roughest chains to break. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
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    The Cuban War of Independence (Spanish: Guerra de Independencia cubana), also known in Cuba as The Necessary War (Spanish: La Guerra Necesaria), fought...
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  • the name of Cuban Lady ran aground on the reef in the 1880s. Other theories suggest that the ledge resembles the outline of the island of Cuba. Pelham Islands...
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    Rhythm and blues (redirect from Rock&B)
    began incorporating Afro-Cuban rhythmic motifs in the 1800s with the popularity of the Cuban contradanza (known outside of Cuba as the habanera). The habanera...
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    Yul Vazquez (category Cuban emigrants to the United States)
    Yul Vazquez (born March 18, 1965) is a Cuban-American actor and musician. He has appeared in Runaway Bride (1999), Bad Boys II (2003), War of the Worlds...
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  • Los Frikis (category 1980s in Cuba)
    Los Frikis or the Frikis is a Cuban punk subculture that originated in the 1980s. As Cuban radio stations rarely played rock music, Frikis often listened...
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    The Dead Daisies (category Rock music supergroups)
    exchange as guests of the Cuban Ministry of Culture, Cuban Institute of Music and the Cuban Rock Agency. This tour saw Lowy, Fortus and Reed joined by...
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    Walfredo Reyes Jr. (category Cuban jazz percussionists)
    has performed with many jazz, Latin, World music, World fusion, Afro-Cuban, and rock bands as a touring, session recording, and full-time player/performer...
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  • Cuba Kiko Alonso, current NFL player for the Miami Dolphins, father is Cuban-born Osvaldo Alonso, midfielder for Minnesota United soccer team, Cuban-born...
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  • Rock" (Collin Raye song), 1994 Little Rock (album), Hayes Carll album), 2005 Littlerock (film), a 2010 film Little Rock (poem), composition by Cuban writer...
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    (also called cha-cha), is a dance of Cuban origin. It is danced to the music of the same name introduced by the Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorrin...
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    The culture of Cuba is a complex mixture of different, often contradicting, factors and influences. The Cuban people and their customs are based on European...
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    for African popular music. Cuban music has been popular in Sub-Saharan Africa since the mid-twentieth century. It was Cuban music, more than any other...
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  • Hipnosis (Italian band), an Italian synthpop group Hipnosis (Cuban band), a Cuban rock band Hipnosis (Chetes album), 2010 Hipnosis (Jackie McLean album)...
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    Hipnosis is a rock band from Marianao, La Habana, Cuba. Formed in 2001, the band rose to national fame in 2004 with its debut video, The Chosen One. Hipnosis...
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    a real Afro-Cuban rhythm. The Bo Diddley beat is a variation of the 3-2 clave, one of the most common bell patterns found in Afro-Cuban music that has...
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    from different racial backgrounds including Afro-Cuban women. Along with Afro-Cuban women, women in Cuba, formerly a marginalized group, were able to gain...
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  • Cuba Cuba are a Welsh pop-rock band from Cardiff, South Wales, formed in 2007. They are currently signed to Walnut Tree Records and are part of the Escape...
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