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GRAMMY To Launch New Digital Performance Series "Global Spin" To Celebrate Global Music

Grammy.com - 01/10/2021

On Tuesday, Sept. 28, GRAMMY.com will premiere its latest digital series: Global Spin, a performance series spotlighting artists from around the world. Each episode of Global Spin will feature a performance from a notable artist or group and will celebrate both the creators and their home countries.

Eme Alfonso: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

NPR - 29/09/2021

As you gaze into the space where Cuban vocalist Eme Alfonso performs her Tiny Desk (home) concert, you enter a place where music becomes a spiritual language. So much of her history and music is centered around the Afro-Cuban spiritual practice that some know as santería.

"Libre", by Eme Alfonso, is the most nominated video clip for the Lucas Awards 2019

Vistar Magazine - 21/11/2019

“Libre” Eme Alfonso´s video, made by the designers Raupa, Mola and Nelson Ponce, is the most nominated for the Lucas 2019 Awards, with 11 nominations, including Video of the Year.

Varadero Josone Music Festival

Cubadebate - 25/08/2019

Four nights of good music in one of the most important tourist places in Cuba has promised the Josone International Festival.
One of the special guests was Eme Alfonso, Cuban singer and songwriter, who takes her roots to combine them with electronic sounds, percussion of the world and Afro-Cuban legends.

Womex 2019 - Artistas Oficiales

09/08/2019

Celebrating creativity and diversity, from new innovative talents to established teachers, from innovation to tradition, and from acoustic to electronic. Showcases highlight every year more than 60 acts from around the world.

Womex 2019 - Official Artists

09/08/2019

Celebrating creativity and diversity, from ground-breaking new talents to established maestros, from innovation to tradition, and from acoustic to electronic. The Showcase concerts spotlight more than 60 acts from around the globe every year.

Press review on "Do the Bay"

05/08/2019

Eme Alfonso, is a Cuban singer-songwriter, uses her roots to combine them with electronic sounds, world percussion and Afro-Cuban legends. The American NPR and the British BBC identified her as “A promise of Latin music.” On August 8 and 11, Eme will perform in the San Francisco City with Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Summer begins in Portugal with Eme Alfonso music

20/07/2019

The Cuban singer and songwriter Eme Alfonso takes her roots combined with electronic sounds, percussions of the world and Afro-Cuban rhythms, to Portugal on a tour entitled Voy Tour, which began on Thursday 20th and will run until June 23.

Concerto junta a Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa e a cantora cubana Eme Alfonso

18/06/2019

This Friday, June 21, at 10 pm, in Jardim Pescador Olhanense, Olhão Municipality welcomes the summer with the holding of an unlikely event: the Summer Solstice Concert, which will be attended by the Orchestra Portuguese Philharmonic and Cuban singer Eme Alfonso.

Afro-Cuban sounds for the digital age

05/04/2019

Eme Alfonso is singer-songwriter from Cuba who’s channeling her family’s musical past. She’s taking Afro-Cuban sounds into the digital age. Marco Werman speaks to Eme Alfonso about her parents’ music and songs from her new album, “Voy.”

Cimafunk y Eme Alfonso en el festival South by Southwest

31/03/2019

From March 8, the South by Southwest festival, which will run until the 17th, will feature Cimafunk and Emonso Alfonso among his performances.

31/03/2019

Voy is the third album by the multifaceted Eme Alfonso. She is one of the most extraordinary young artists in Cuba. She’s a singer-songwriter and composer that grew up in one of the most influential music families in Cuba.

Eme Alfonso Announces US Release of New Album VOY

07/03/2019

Now with her third album Voy due to be released in the U.S., Eme plunges deep into soul, funk, jazz, and afro-Cuban sounds. The new album was recorded in both Cuba and Brazil and produced by the renowned Brazilian producer, Alê Siqueira. The title track “Voy” is a gorgeous song about willpower, the future, perseverance and firm thinking.

07/03/2019

On March 22 Eme Alfonso will re-release her new album VOY with digital CD distribution in the U.S. Chosen by the Cuban critics as one of the best albums of 2018, Eme will bring her unique mix of Cuban island sounds with soulful genres to the U.S

Voy: la vuelta al mundo en diez canciones – Magazine AM:PM

07/12/2018

Let’s play those ten songs that make up Voy, disco-marvel of Eme Alfonso. Where does it take them? If the journey is through the senses, the experience of many of you may be different.