Roni Ben-Hur

Abriendo Puertas, Recorded in Havana at DBega Studios, brings Roni Ben-Hur’s lucid, intimate guitar language into conversation with Cuban rhythmic tradition, jazz improvisation, and the deep emotional textures of song. More than a cross-cultural encounter, Abriendo Puertas is a record about listening, about what becomes possible when musicians meet across histories, accents, and shared sensibilities.

In this album, Ben-Hur does not approach Cuban music as an outsider or stylistic tourist. Instead, he enters it with generosity, discipline, and curiosity, allowing the music’s internal logic to shape the album from within. The title itself—“Opening Doors”—captures the ethos of the record: a willingness to cross thresholds, to be changed by encounter, and to find in musical dialogue a form of shared human recognition. Ben-Hur has described the title track, composed by Alejandro Falcón, as speaking directly to the essence of the project and to his own identity as an artist long drawn to the sounds of other worlds, from North African and Arabic music to Brazilian and Afro-Latin traditions.

Abriendo Puertas stands as both a singular album and an entry point into a larger unfolding story. It is a recording of refined musicianship, but also of encounter: between New York and Havana, jazz and Cuban song, composition and conversation, memory and present-tense listening. With Abriendo Puertas, Roni Ben-Hur affirms that musical tradition is not a closed inheritance, but a living field of relation: one that expands each time someone enters it with care.