The story
Cubadisco in Havana
Founded in 1997 to give Cuba's growing recorded music industry a shared forum and a balanced competition between Cuban and foreign labels, Cubadisco is the country's leading international music fair, awarding the Black Phonograph across more than twenty-five genre categories. Each edition dedicates itself to a specific country and musical genre, combining industry conferences and record launches with concerts across multiple Havana venues.
Cubadisco was created in 1997 to solve a specific industry problem: as Cuba's recorded music sector grew, with six record companies operating by that year, producers and executives needed a shared forum for exchange and a genuinely fair, ecumenical competition that could balance the interests of Cuban and foreign labels alike, and the first International CUBADISCO Fair delivered both.