"Bridge to Havana"

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Political tensions between the United States and Cuba fade away on the CD/DVD "Bridge to Havana," which documents the cross-cultural collaboration of more than 70 American, European and Cuban musicians and songwriters.

Gladys Knight, Bonnie Raitt, Joan Osborne, Mick Fleetwood, Peter Frampton and Montell Jordan are among the stars who traveled to Cuba in 1999. Their work is captured on an album and in a DVD concert, set for July release by Pyramid Records.

Pyramid president Alan Jacoby says musicians were partnered by pulling names out of hats, and the songs were written and recorded in a week at three studios set up at Havana's historic Hotel Nacional: "Some magic happened that week."

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