Lázaro Ros, one of Cuba's great folkloric singers and dancers — a master akpwón who knew more than 500 songs in African languages — succumbed to cancer yesterday in Havana at age 79.
Link to interview with Ros in Cuban press, when he received a state honor last month. Link to partial discography. Can't find any english-language coverage at the moment, this news comes by way of Cuban's National Information Service (Agencia de Informacion Nacional). Link to more background (in Spanish).
(Thanks, Ned Sublette)