Buena Vista Social Club

Recorded in Havana in the 90s, it brought together incredible Cuban musicians, many of whom had lived through the Cuban Revolution and decades of huge political and social change. I think it says so much about the power of music that an album made in Cuba, a country that had been so politically isolated, reached me as a little girl growing up in Greece! I used to play it in our living room and make up my own choreographies to the songs, without really knowing anything about Cuba at the time. I love the mix of son, bolero and jazz, and how warm, romantic and full of life the whole album feels. Years later, I can appreciate the history behind it so much more, but it still takes me straight back to that living room.