Dance, dance, dance! This music will have you moving in no time, its infectious good humour blowing away all the cobwebs. We may not all be TV stars, but we can all still enjoy the style and rhythm of this great music. Evocative titles and a fast paced music bring the sounds and scents of the real Cuba to life.

Religion and politics have been an overriding influence on the music of Cuba, much, in fact, in the same way that the church and state were important drivers of music in Western Europe from the origins of polyphony in the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris onwards, although many of the musical outcomes have been very different!