Jeffrey Brown:
This connection of grooves has brought Cimafunk three Grammy nominations and one Latin Grammy nomination, including this year for his album “Pa’ Tu Cuerpa,” “For Your Body,” a joyous example of his brand of empowerment through music.
It also fueled his leadership in a very direct project of connection called Getting Funky in Havana. It recently brought together music students from Havana and New Orleans. Cimafunk worked alongside his friend jazz great Trombone Shorty, mentoring and playing with the stars of tomorrow, including at a music school in their own special kind of mash-up.
Troy Andrews, “Trombone Shorty”: He’s one of the great, Cimafunk, and he’s incorporating American funk with the Cuban style and he’s creating a whole new genre of music. And the kids that’s here, they love him. I just walk around town with him and see that.
