Joe Cuba Sextet has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 17 September 2014. Joe Cuba Sextet's music has been featured on 14 episodes.

Joe Cuba born "Gilberto Calderon" in 1931 in the city of New York, was a Puerto Rican musician.

Cuba is considered to be the "Father of Latin Boogaloo". His parents emigrated from Puerto Rico in the late 1920s and settled in Spanish Harlem, a Hispanic ghetto located in Manhattan. Cuba was raised in an apartment building where his father had become the owner of a candy store located on the ground floor (street level floor). His father had organized a…