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Cuban musicians and musical influences have been making a mark in the United States for decades. Shown here, at the 2016 American Music Awards, are the members of the pop group Fifth Harmony. From left to right: Dinah Jane Hansen, Lauren Jauregui, Normani Hamilton, Ally Brooke, and Camila Cabello. Jauregui is the daughter of Cuban immi- grants, while Cabello was born in Havana.

Holly’s rock-and-roll classic “Not Fade Away” or in the punk rock anthem “I Fought the Law” by the Clash. Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” employs Afro-Cuban–style polyrhythms . “Louie, Louie”—which was a huge hit for the Kingsmen in the early 1960s and which may be the most recorded rock song ever— borrows from a Cuban musical genre called the cha-cha-cha (or

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Cuban Music, Dance, and Celebrations