2008 two CD set. Bar Havana features the classic and modern music of Cuba: "la isla bonita" of the Caribbean. For over a century, this Spanish speaking island, whose population and culture are a marriage of Africa and Spain, has been the leading innovator and exporter of Latin American music and dance to the rest of the world. Rumba, Son, Danzon, Mambo, Cha Cha Cha, Charanga, Songo and Timba are just some of the Cuban music genres featured on this two disc compilation which takes you from the 1940s to the present day. Nascente.