Cimafunk: How his Afro-Cuban funk tells a bigger story about the African diaspora | Alt.Latino

Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras sit down with Erik Rodríguez of Cimafunk to talk about how he’s created his singular sound, the complex African lineage of his music and why his band is his “tribe.”

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