Another band playing the KUTX morning session on Thursday is this Afro-Cuban musician. Rolling Stone says:
The artist, whose real name is Erik Iglesias Rodriguez, grew up in Pinar del Rio, the epicenter of tobacco production in western Cuba. He started singing in church when he was little, playing a “weird trumpet” someone gave him. As a teenager, he dabbled with reggaeton and the more traditional Cuban style of trova, but he found his rhythm after moving to Havana and diving into the rich funk scene there. He played in different bands before he began to perform as Cimafunk — a stage name taken from the word “cimarrones,” used to describe Africans who escaped enslavement in Cuba and created walled palenque communities to protect one another. “That’s always been the base of Afro-Cuban culture for me: People creating, people living, people growing together in community,” he says.
Cimafunk’s foray into music was a risk. He’d left his third year of med school to fully pursue an artistic career, but it paid off.
Apparently his live shows are electric. Here's his Tiny Desk Concert. This song is his biggest hit. It's also the last song on the Tiny Desk Concert.
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