Alex Cuba @ 3PM

Alex Cuba is a Grammy- and Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter and guitarist known for blending Latin, soul, jazz, and pop into a warm, genre-defying sound.

It's a strange thing, watching audiences sing along with Alex without speaking his native Spanish. But they do.

They "la-la-la" their way from chorus to chorus, caught up in his inescapable gravitational pull. His warm, elastic vocals float above a sound essentially from everywhere–an effortless mix of Funk, Soul, and pan-Latin textures–and no matter where you're from, you can't help it. You're home.

He discovered music's power to mesmerize and transport you at an early age. "I used to skip meals," says Cuba, speaking of the long days he spent locked in his room as a child in Artemisa, Cuba, mastering the bass. "My mother would have to remind me that I was human, that I needed food. Music has always taken me away like that."…