Edito de A las doceYusa is living proof that not everyone in Cuba makes music like their Grandaddy! Yes, of course there are urban echoes of classic trova songs, but its offshoots like bolero and notably 'filin' that inform this true voice of the 21st Century whose songs break down the labels usually imposed on the islands music. As a modern troubadour Yusa, like others in her peer group, is as influenced by Spanish and North American pop and jazz as a 'nueva trova' and son. After all Yusa grew up with her ear stimulated by everything Cuba had to offer as well as a legion of international musicians including Miles Davies, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Stevie Wonder, Chick Correa and Jacob Pastorius. And she's of a generation whose musical world owes as much to their contemporaries in Brazil - Lenine, Chico Science, Chico Cesar, Carlinhos Brown - as to anything home grown.