Ahi Nama Music Company

Jimmy Maslon was raised a Minnesota country boy who didn't speak a speck of Spanish and barely heard a serious lick of Latin music until a few years ago. Today, this onetime R&B guitarist and horror-film fan owns the hottest contemporary Cuban music label in the U.S. The quixotic executive lives in Hollywood, thousands of miles and cultural light years from historic Havana, where most of his artists are based.

Jimmy Maslon was raised a Minnesota country boy who didn't speak a speck of Spanish and barely heard a serious lick of Latin music until a few years ago. Today, this onetime R&B guitarist and horror-film fan owns the hottest contemporary Cuban music label in the U.S. The quixotic executive lives in Hollywood, thousands of miles and cultural light years from historic Havana, where most of his artists are based.