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Leonel O Zúñiga & Havana Street Band

The rising star at the Cuban music scene. Leonel O Zúñiga , sax and flute player, leading a nine excellent Cuban music’s group bringing from Cuba the best music and a blow of their beloved Cuba. Acclaimed as a producer, director, composer and performer.

As bandleader, composer, and arranger, Zúñiga aims to provide another vision of both traditional and modern Latin genres, while exploring new ways of fusing those ingredients with elements of jazz, Afro, funk, and other idioms. As a flutist, has gone further: he has expanded the musical jurisdiction of the Cuban flute, taking his instrument to unprecedented heights.

They have an interesting repertory combining traditional songs with new brilliant arrangements carried on by musicians like Roberto Riveron and Lazaro Calvo and Leonel O Zúñiga itself and their own fresh and new music. Pay attention to their brass section as it promises  to become the successor of Ng la banda’s Los metales del terror.

Their individual story is basically the same of thousands of great musicians in Cuba. Despite their quality they find difficulties to cross borders from Cuba although most of them have been playing in well-known Cuban bands. Currently living in Spain, they have performed in some of the main country venues and festivals.