Alex Cuba: Change Agent by Rosalind Cummmings - Yeates

Mar 17, 2008 at 9:35 AM

http://www.ebonyjet.com/culture/music/index.asp...

Alex Cuba looks like a latter day Sly Stone, with a towering fro, skin-tight bell-bottoms and bushy sideburns that creep towards the sides of his mouth. But rather than just copping a fabulously retro fashion sense, Cuba also borrows from Stone’s genre-bending musical approach. A multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter who grew up in the Cuban countryside, he produces sophisticated Latin pop in the artic fringes of a Canadian logging and mining town. Drawing diverse influences from Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and The Blind Boys of Alabama as well as from his rich heritage, Alex Cuba artfully represents the new face of Cuban contemporary music.