{"id":2287,"date":"2025-12-16T16:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koubek.wpenginepowered.com\/event\/women-of-the-caribbean-concert\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T00:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:39:41","slug":"women-of-the-caribbean-concert","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/koubekcenter.org\/es\/event\/women-of-the-caribbean-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Women of the Caribbean Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three dynamic, powerful performers \u2014 singers, musicians, and songwriters <strong>Yusa<\/strong>, <strong>Inez Barlatier<\/strong>, and <strong>Keba<\/strong>\u2014 headline the concert\u00a0<strong>Women of the Caribbean,<\/strong>\u00a0a musical celebration staged outdoors, in the Koubek\u2019s Gardens,<strong><\/strong>marking the re-opening of the Koubek for limited-capacity audiences following COVID-19 guidelines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yusa<\/strong> is a Cuban a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, lyricist, \u00a0arranger, and composer powerhouse. Her work suggests a deep knowledge of Cuban musical traditions such as son and trova, but updated with elements of jazz, pop, and R&amp;B. A classical guitarist by training, Yusa specialized early on in the tres, a small six-string guitar-like instrument that is the defining sound of Cuban son, and later incorporated in her music an electric bass, keyboards, and percussion instruments. She was a founding member of Interactivo \u2014 an adventurous collective that blended elements of hip-hop, rock, jazz, and blues with Cuban son, timba, rumba, and boleros \u2014 before embarking on a solo career that has included collaborations with Brazilian singer and songwriter Lenine,\u00a0Omara\u00a0Portuondo, Raly Barrionuevo, Veronica Condom\u00ed,\u00a0Liliana Vitale, Nu Deco and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.<\/p>\n<p>Miami\u2019s own <strong>Inez Barlatier<\/strong> is a Haitian-American multi-disciplinary artist and educator. She learned to play guitar from her father, Jan Sebon, himself a multi-disciplinary artist and educator and a mainstay of the group Kazak International. Barlatier started performing at the age of 12 and, in time,\u00a0 organized her own band,\u00a0Kazoots. She has appeared as a solo performer, accompanying herself on guitar, her rich, expressive voice, storytelling lyrics, and on-stage presence evoking the work of folk music-based artists such as Tracy Chapman and Joan Armatrading.<\/p>\n<p>The sound of Trinidad-born singer and songwriter <strong>Keba<\/strong> is an organic blend of classic soul, R&amp;B, and pop (she mentions artists such as Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin as references) mixed with her distinct rhythmic sense. Her lyrics have been described as a mix of \u201craw vulnerability with a playful exploration of love, femininity, and identity as a first-generation immigrant and millennial.\u201d She performs both as a solo artist and a front woman of the funk, soul, and R&amp;B band, Keba &amp; The Usual Suspects. She launched her solo career in 2013 with the release of <em>Wildfire,<\/em> and in 2018, she followed it up with the release of the EP, <em>Filmstrip.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three dynamic, powerful performers \u2014 singers, musicians, and songwriters Yusa, Inez Barlatier, and Keba\u2014 headline the concert\u00a0Women of the Caribbean,\u00a0a musical celebration staged outdoors, in the Koubek\u2019s Gardens,marking the re-opening of the Koubek for limited-capacity audiences following COVID-19 guidelines. Yusa is a Cuban a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, lyricist, \u00a0arranger, and composer powerhouse. 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