The Sound
Habana Filín is Yohana Peña's band, where the great hits that raised her meet a jazz phrasing that never stops transforming: Cuban romantic music of today, not a museum piece. Every performance is designed to keep the room silent during its delivery and let it breathe, just two bars later, with a jazzy transition. Because music only makes it stronger, and three elements pulse through every one of her performances.
Heart of filin
Songs of longing and devotion that Cuban families have sung for a century, and that still resonate authentically in a room.
Jazz phrasing
Chords borrowed from jazz, a tempo that breathes and never rushes, without leaving behind the essence of the melody.
A contemporary voice
Arrangements created for the present, for a woman who sings her own truth through melodies that everyone already loves.
New Album
“I don't perform filin as a memory. I sing it as if it happened to me last night.”