The Cuban Sound of 2024: Exploring the Limits of Casting and Beyond
In Magazine AMPM we couldn't let the year go unnoticed. This time, building our list was more challenging. With a small team, personal biases came to the fore, and the dominance of the cast became impossible to ignore. But should we simply let popularity dictate the pulse of the year? Or, conversely, do we have the right - and the responsibility - to go beyond the algorithm to curate a balanced, fair and diverse selection?
We opted for the latter. We recognized that 2024 brought much more than the obvious: the cast as the undisputed soundtrack in Cuba and its diaspora, seeking to consolidate a more international profile while appreciating a lukewarm recognition (resignation?) of Cuban cultural institutions. But there were also songs in other genres that deserved a space in this conversation; thus was born our playlist of the year, not (only) as a recount of the most popular, but as a rescue of what usually goes unnoticed.
This is the result: a selection that seeks to blur boundaries, highlight the best of national production and offer an authentic panorama of what the year sounded like in Cuba. Now we want to know, what did yours sound like?
Cuban songs of 2024 according to Magazine AMPM:
- On a low flame - Daymé Arocena, Vicente García
- Amnesia - Wampi
- At your mercy - Cimafunk, Francisco Cespedes, Camila Guevara
- Batilongo - Alain Perez
- Boca Arriba and Sobrecama - Vanito Brown
- Catalina - Cimafunk, Monsieur Periné
- The Point - Charly & Johayron, Bebeshito, El Taiger, Ernesto Losa
- That Dress - L Kimii, DJ Conds
- Fina - Melanie Santiler
- The Seniors - The Child and the Truth, Adonis and Osain del Monte
- The Nike - Seikan Anikila
- Mandarina Brand - Bebeshito, El Taiger, Ernesto Losa
- mia bazta - Chezca Zana
- Pride - L Kimii
- Pine and Swing - Adrian Aguiar, Jonathan Formell
- How Rich I Feel - Bebeshito, Ernesto Losa
- Without Words - Kelvis Ochoa
- Silence (Remix) - Alexander Abreu, Velito el Bufón (Velito the Jester)
- Only sometimes - Charly Siaba
- You have to be born again - El Chulo, Dany Ome, Wampi, Kevincito El 13, DJ Alex, Lex White
- All Those I Like Live In Caselapinga - Axere, Drumglass
