Salcedo’s Latin Soul: Papo & Paulina Album Release Party
Friday, November 13, 2026
8:00 PM
Kupferberg Center for the Arts
65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Queens, NY 11367
Scheduled
About This Event
Live event at Kupferberg Center for the Arts
About Popy y Palmas
“Popy y Palmas” arrives in New York as a live performance at the Kupferberg Center for the Arts. The work centers on popular song and dance traditions, tracing how they travel through family memory, migration, and everyday ritual. In a city where Caribbean and Latin American diasporas shape the sound of public life, it reads as documentation as much as entertainment. Its most telling move is its restraint: it lets the material’s social history come forward without forcing a lesson.
About the Artists
Papo
Angel Rafael "Papo" Vázquez is an American trombonist, composer, arranger, and bandleader of Puerto Rican descent who performs and records jazz, Latin and Afro-Caribbean music. He is known as one of the pioneers of the bomba jazz style and is a Grammy Award nominee.
Paulina
Paulina Susana Rubio Dosamantes is a Mexican singer, songwriter and television personality. Referred to as "The Golden Girl", she first achieved recognition as a member of the successful pop group Timbiriche from 1982 through 1991.