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Cimafunk

  • Union Stage 740 Water Street Southwest Washington, DC, 20024 United States (map)

Recently named by Billboard as a “Top 10 Latin Artist to watch in 2019,” the world is lucky to now discover the music that turned Cuba upside down in 2018. Winner of the Lucas Award for most popular music video and named “Artist of the Year” by Vistar Magazine, Cimafunk has created a movement in Havana and throughout the island, selling out venues with thousands of fans excited to dance to the groove of Afro-Cuban Funk.

Bringing the funk to Cuban rhythms (and vice versa), Cimafunk embraces the piquant playfulness of timeless Cuban music with 21st-century style, referencing timba as well as trova, and continuing where '90s cult band Yerba Buena left off. Cimafunk, who was by all accounts Cuba's 2018 revelation of the year, is poised for international discovery.