José Luis Cortés, "one of the most important figures in contemporary Cuban music," died on April 18 in Havana, Cuba per the Instituto Cubano de la Música Jack Irvin has over five years of experience ...

Timba, a Cuban cousin of Salsa is popular worldwide, but never really caught on in LA. That might be changing, if a hard-working Timba band keeps finding new fans. In the early 1990s, “Timba”, a new ...

The Cuban music form known as timba developed in the 1980s, but exploded in popularity throughout the '90s. While training in jazz and classical conservatories, many Cuban musicians were looking for a ...

Juanito “Long John” Oliva is probably best known to the wider music audience for his stirring percussion work with the guitar duo Strunz and Farah. But the Havana-born tumbador has surfaced in a ...

Question: What do you get if you mix contemporary Cuban music with jazz? A relatively new genre called timba, says Jorge Gómez, the pianist and director of Tiempo Libre, a timba group he started in ...

The former grain trader extended his activities through a parent company called Renaissance Financial Holdings to Africa First Reassurance Corporation and beyond that to Rainbow Tourism Group.

Beleagured top banker Patterson Timba faces arrest after being nailed by a forensic audit for allegedly looting ReNaissance Merchant Bank (RMB) through fraudulent activities. Timba had been the major ...

FORMER ReNaissance Financial Holdings group chief executive officer, Patterson Timba, has been declared insolvent by the High Court after failing to settle a $1 815 117 debt with First Mutual Holdings ...

FILE - Then-Zimbabwe's minister of state in the Prime Minister's office Jameson Timba, arrives at the High Court in Harare, Sunday, June, 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File) HARARE, ...