How Daymé Arocena left Cuba and found a freeing new sound in Afro-Caribbean pop

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Her new album, Alkemi, is the synthesis of those two epiphanies within the 32-year-old. Recorded and produced in Puerto Rico with Eduardo Cabra of Calle 13, the album retains the Afro-Cuban folklore and jazz traditions that became integral to Arocena's sound in the early 2010s.