The Cuban musical duo Buena Fe, recognized internationally for a sound panorama that combines national and foreign rhythms, will perform this Sunday in Costa Rica. The presentation of Israel Rojas and Yoel Martínez, whose work is distinguished by critics for its mix between traditional trova and changüí from the Caribbean country, pop rock, reggae and other Caribbean rhythms, will be at the Jazz Café cabaret in the capital, as part of their 2025 Central American tour.

According to their producers, the artists from Buena Fe, originally from the eastern Cuban city of Guantánamo and whose awards began at the Cubadisco 2022 festival, bring to this Central American nation a curriculum enriched over 25 years in more than 10 countries.

The duo’s career, marked as best group and best-selling album of that Cuban recording industry contest, their first album in 2001 launched them “into the seductive adventure of becoming known and becoming the island’s favorite,” according to their producer Carlos Pacheco.

Formed since 1999 by Rojas as director and composer and Martínez as guitarist and second voice, the duo has accumulated 13 albums both through their duo format and accompanied by their musicians, including Corazonero (2004), Presagio (2006), Catalejo (2008) and Extremistas nobles (2010).

His recording work since 2001, completed with Pi 3,14 (2011), Dial (2013), Soy (2015), Sobreviviente (2017), Carnal (2019), Mar Adentro (Audiolibro 2021) and his most recent production, Morada (2023), has the generational seal of the last quarter of a century, researchers point out.

“Buena Fe expresses with its songs, voices and musical chords, the singularities of the identity and the ‘Cubanness’ that identifies the traditions and idiosyncrasy of the Caribbean, mixed and Martian people of the Greater Antilles,” local scholar Óscar Barrantes told Prensa Latina.

The representative of the Costa Rican Popular Center for Social Studies also praised Buena Fe for “its casual contribution to bringing the affection, message, spirit of friendship, internationalist will, solidarity and brotherhood of the paradigmatic and legendary Cuban people to the world.”

“We welcome you with admiration, fraternity and hospitality in our land of hard-working, good, conscientious and grateful people, Israel Rojas, Yoel Martínez and their companions, legitimate sons of Cuban dignity,” stressed Yamileth López, an activist of the Bolivarian Circle.