SXSW Music Festival: Soy Cubana - Music from the Movie

Live International Concert

Exile Entertainment
Producer: Jane Stupp-O’Neill

NYTimes Best Acts of SXSW 2021

This four-woman vocal group performed on a hotel rooftop in Santiago de Cuba as a tie-in to “Soy Cubana,” a documentary about them that was shown as part of SXSW’s film festival. Vocal Vidas performs Afro-Cuban songs using just voices and percussion, turning themselves into horn and rhythm sections as well as a call-and-response chorus, singing about love and the power of music; their mini-set also included a South African song: “Freedom Is Coming.”
--The New York Times