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  Cuba

  Gloria Estefan delivers a message of freedom in the Vatican

  During a brief encounter with Pope Francis, Gloria Estefan asked him to keep the plight of Cubans in mind
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  In concert

  Bryan Adams strips down in concert, shares photographs

  South Florida lends itself to people stripping down. Celebs, residents and tourists do it all the time. Canadian rocker Bryan Adams is no exception.
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  Haiti

  Haitian music, culture take center stage at Compas Fest

  Celebrating its 15th year, music festival brings together Haitian fans and top entertainers to celebrate Haiti’s culture, and Flag Day.
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  Album reviews

  Michael Bublé coasts, Fleetwood Mac returns and Rod Stewart writes again

  POP
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  MIAMI GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL

  Composer Desmond Child: Gay people can be parents, too

  A documentary details how Miami composer Desmond Child and partner Curtis Shaw became parents of twin boys.
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  DEATHS

  Gustavo Noguera, Beethoven devotee, dies

  Gustavo Alberto Noguera Delgado believed he was prenatally programmed to love Ludwig van Beethoven.
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  Natalie Cole makes Spanish singing debut at Latin Songwriters gala on Miami Beach

  Natalie Cole looked and sang like a diva at the inaugural Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame gala at the New World Symphony on Tuesday night, delivering a lovely rendition of Acercate Mas (Get Closer) in a “Unforgettable” style duet with video of her father Nat King Cole. “It’s not easy being first, and Dad was a first in so many ways,” Cole told the audience at the New World Center on Miami Beach, as she accepted the Premio Pionero Desi Arnaz on behalf of her father, who was friends with the famous Cuban actor and singer. Nat King Cole was revered in Cuba for recording three albums of Latin American songs. “I can only imagine Desi and my Dad are looking down on us.”
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  Billboard Latin Music Awards

  Billboard Latin Music Awards reveal industry’s struggle to find new stars

  Viewers of Thursday night’s Billboard Latin Music Awards, broadcast live from Coral Gables on Telemundo, might get a strong feeling of déjà vu. On stage will be longtime salsa-pop favorite Marc Anthony (that was him, too, in 2012, 2011 and 2010), pop diva Paulina Rubio (a repeat from 2012 and 2010) and reggaeton star Don Omar and veteran Mexican pop-rockers Mana (both appearing for the third year in a row).
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  Gift for a king: 5-disc set commemorates Tito Puente’s 90th birthday

  Jazz had Dukes and Counts. Latin music had one King. And hype aside, by the time of his death in 2000 at age 77, Tito Puente was an icon.
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  Latin music

  Band’s ‘El Hielo (ICE)’ becomes anthem of immigration-reform movement

  The debate over immigration is highly political, but for the Los Angeles-based group La Santa Cecelia, the issue is painfully personal. Lead singer Marisol Hernandez’s parents came to L.A. from Mexico without papers, and accordionist Jose “Pepe” Carlos is undocumented.
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  Stand-up Comedy

  Miami has stand-up comedy — if you know where to look

  Some say Miami lacks a stand-up comedy scene. The truth is, you just have to know where to look.
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  Performing arts

  New World Symphony, Miami City Ballet collaborate on evening of new works

  Two young artists are at the center of the adventurous “New Work” program the New World Symphony will present April 20. Choreographer Justin Peck, 25, created a pas de deux for Miami City Ballet for the occasion, and Zosha Di Castri, 28, composed a piece the orchestra will premiere.
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  Concert review

  Taylor Swift’s ‘Red’ tour lights up AA Arena

  The best revenge Taylor Swift could have against media sniping, celebrity ex-boyfriends and Kanye West-style haters would be that, after Justin Bieber and a generation of boy bands have fallen into oblivion, she makes the transition from teen prodigy to grown-up star.
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  Music review

  Cubafest closer showcases Gema Corredera’s luminous talent

  The annual Global Cubafest closed with a concert that beautifully expressed the event’s goal of celebrating and exploring Cuban music throughout the diaspora.
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  Latin music

  Musicals, video-game score on Gustavo Santaolalla’s overflowing plate

  Gustavo Santaolalla never stops forging into new territory. The Argentine producer of seminal Latin rock artists including Juanes, Café Tacuba and Molotov, composer of Oscar-winning scores for the movies Brokeback Mountain and Babel and co-founder of the tango-fusion group Bajofondo has a host of new projects in new genres including a dance musical, a video game, an animated film — and a winery.
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  Juanes is back, re-energized and determined to keep life in balance

  The only instrument you notice walking into Juanes’ sun-dappled home on Key Biscayne is an upright piano, covered with lesson books for his daughter Paloma, 7, who on this weekday morning is sprawled on a sofa, along with siblings Luna, 9, and Dante, 3, in pajama-clad, spring-break bliss. The 16 Grammy Awards, racks of guitars and other trappings of the 40-year-old Colombian rock star’s career are in his recording studio upstairs.

• Picking one last fight with Roger Ebert

  Film critic Roger Ebert, who died of cancer Thursday at age 70, reviewed thousands of movies over the years for the Chicago Sun-Times and his television show. His often cutting reviews ("I've seen audits that were more thrilling," he said of one lifeless picture) in turn triggered thousands of arguments.
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  Beyonce and Jay-Z: In Cuba today; in concert in Miami this summer

  Superstar Beyonce’s visit to Cuba with her equally famous rapper hubby Jay-Z on Thursday raised eyebrows in South Florida.
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  Celebrities

  One costume Rihanna won’t wear: Role model

  Rihanna isn’t the first celebrity to turn down the job of poster child for perfection, but she’s received more attention than many for refusing it.
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  Celebrities

  Good boy gone bad? Justin Bieber’s adult problems

  In just four years, Justin Bieber has gone from fielding innocuous questions about his haircut to denying that he’s in desperate need of rehab. Bieber’s grown up and into tabloid territory, with his recent troubles making some question whether he’s just the latest teen star gone wild.
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  Music

  Jam at PAX to benefit injured trumpeter, Guitars Over Guns

  Ted Zimmerman’s parents found that playing the trumpet could calm their 11-year-old troublemaker of a son.
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  Electronic dance music

  Think Ultra Music Fest revelers are living large? Get a load of the SoBe VIP crowd

  Think Ultra Music Fest revelers are living large? Get a load of the VIP sections in South Beach clubs.
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  music

  Gillespie, Pozo’s historic jazz collaboration to be feted at Arsht Center in Miami

  A concert Friday at the Adrienne Arsht Center will celebrate the historic collaboration of Dizzy Gillespie and Cuban composer Chano Pozo.

• Record-breaking year for Jazz in the Gardens

  Jazz in the Gardens drew a record number of fans this year, organizers said Thursday.
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  In concert

  Alicia Keys eyes Miami to ‘Set the World on Fire’ on latest tour

  Alicia Keys, fresh from a Super Bowl performance, brings her Set the World on Fire Tour to the AmericanAirlines Arena. For Keys, it’s all ‘part of the journey.’
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  THE ARTS

  Young Florida Grand Opera singer finds new relevancy in ‘Tango’

  Florida Grand Opera singer Matthew Newlin’s performance of Tango this week at The Stage in Miami’s Design District has suddenly become very relevant, he says.

• Miami Gardens Jazz in the Gardens

  ‘The conch man’ is a crowd favorite at Jazz in the Gardens

  Opa-locka chef Keith Reed’s ‘the one’ at the Miami Gardens Jazz in the Gardens. His conch salad in a pineapple shell draws thousands.
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  Album reviews

  David Bowie confronts mortality, love and war on ‘The Next Day’

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  Electronic music | Ultra Music Festival

  Club drug ‘Molly’ on major upswing as Ultra Music Fest Miami approaches

  “Molly,” billed as pure MDMA or Ecstasy but sometimes containing other substances, comes in a white powder and can lead to brain injury, depression and heart issues.
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  Latin music

  Cuban drummer Horacio ‘El Negro’ Hernández brings Italuba to Miami Beach for its U.S. debut

  After hearing him power the groups behind Latin pop-rock superstar Carlos Santana, Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Spanish pop singer-songwriter Alejandro Sanz, it’s hard to imagine Cuban drummer Horacio “El Negro” Hernández doing anything quietly. And yet, two years ago, he discreetly settled in South Florida.
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  Nightlife

  Pub crawl to mix bicycling and beer

  The Beer Snob Bicycle Pub Crawl is all about exercising, socializing and discovering new beers, organizers say .
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  Latin music

  Famed Cuban singer to make her Miami debut Saturday

  Most musicians in Cuba have pursued their art all their lives, coming from musical families and studying from childhood. But one of the most popular singers on the island, Ivette Cepeda, began her musical career after teaching mathematics for more than a decade.
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  Jazz

  Jazz pianist Fred Hersch comes back strong from near-death AIDS ordeal

  A smart, lyrical pianist and composer with a distinctive sound and an unassuming manner, five-time Grammy nominee Fred Hersch is one of the most important jazz musicians of his generation.
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  Music

  Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake coming to South Florida in August

  The rumored Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z tour appears closer to reality — and a South Florida show is in the plans.
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  Virginia Key

  Grassroots Festival brings cultural diversity to Virginia Key

  Grassroots Festival of Music & Dance brings four days of musical and cultural diversity to Virginia Key Beach on Thursday.

• CLASSICAL MUSIC

  Chopin-prize award winner will perform classical music in South Florida

  Taiwanese pianist Yi-Yang Chen will perform two classical music performances in Miami-Dade and Broward in February.
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  Jazz

  Arsht Center celebrates jazz giants ‘Monk & Coltrane’

  Growing up the son of an artist of mythical status while making your way in the same field sets up daunting challenges. And yet T.S. Monk, whose father, Thelonious Monk, is a hallowed figure in the jazz pantheon, has managed to define his own identity while honoring and building on his legacy.
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  Coral Gables

  Flautist left Cuba behind to pursue his music

  He will play Thursday at Angelique Euro Café on Miracle Mile.
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  Jazz

  The 3 Cohens: First family of Israeli jazz plays South Florida Saturday

  As unlikely as it may seem, the battle-scarred land of Israel has produced a generation of world-class jazz talent. And clarinetist Anat Cohen would have to rank high on anyone’s list of Sabra jazz superstars.
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  Wynwood

  Gramps aims to be hometown bar

  A new bar in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood offers customers a break from the glitz and glamour of the South Beach club scene.

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