Felix Cabrera is a rarity: a blues-oriented singer, harmonica player and composer who spent most of his pre-teen years in Cuba. The bilingual Cabrera, who now lives in New York City, is not a blues purist; not everything he does adheres to a traditional12-bar blues structure, and he has combined the blues with elements of rock, soul, funk and Afro-Cuban music. But blues is his main focus, and it certainly isn't every day that one encounters a Cuban artist who does what Cabrera does. That isn't to say that he is the first Cuban musician who brought the feeling of the blues to his work. There have been plenty of Cuban jazz artists who played with the feeling of the blues--Paquito D'Rivera, Arturo Sandoval, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, among many others--and there have been many Cuban salsa artists who were influenced by soul, funk or jazz. But a Cuban artist who, like Cabrera, actually has a blues orientation is the exception instead of the rule.
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