Isaac is a salsa singer from Havana who’s performed with Orquesta de Pacho Alonso and NG La Banda. The latter group—which he helped found—helped to popularize the then-nascent Cuban genre of timba, a sound that blends with salsa, American funk, R&B, and Afro-Cuban folkloric music.

This singer, pianist, composer, and actress aka “La Sonera del Mundo”—is a decorated artist with multiple GRAMMYs and Latin GRAMMYs under her belt. She’s also connected with Celia Cruz in a more literal sense, having played her in the Colombian telenovela Celia.

This Cuban singer and multi-instrumentalist is an accomplished percussionist, distinguishing herself as an expert on the Bata. A long-standing member of Interactivo, a Havana-based musical collective led by the pianist Roberto Carcassés, she has also worked with the Afro-Cuban percussion troupe Obini Bata, a woman-founded group first formed in the early 1990s.