Joe Cuba has been played on NTS in shows including Bump City w/ Billy Goods , featured first on 24 December 2016. Songs played include Mujer Divina, To Be With You and Quinto Sabroso.

Born "Gilberto Miguel Calderón" in New York City, Cuba's parents moved from Puerto Rico to New York City in the late 1920s and settled in Spanish Harlem, a Latino community 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 stickball club called the Devils. Stickball was…