— DJ / Producer / Sound Designer

EYEIFE Festival • Fabrica de Arte • Havana

Chinatown Downtown live at Bellas Artes • Havana

The Glass Home • Chelsea • NYC

Cooking with Cimafunk & Wampi • Brooklyn

Regeneracion • Sound Bath • Live at Home

Cosmic Night • The Red Pavilion • Brooklyn

Yongolailan is a Cuban multidisciplinary artist, DJ, producer, and live electronic performer based in New York City. Born and raised in Havana, his work moves between Afro-diasporic rhythms, Afro-Cuban tradition, Latin jazz, house, ambient music, and contemporary electronic production, shaping a distinctive sound rooted in Afro-Caribbean futurism. His debut project, 𝐒𝐮𝐞ñ𝐨 𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥, released in 2015, earned a Cubadisco Award that same year in the Electroacoustic Music category, establishing an artistic language that continues through his 2024 album 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐄 and his evolving body of revival and interdisciplinary work. His work has increasingly expanded into the international festival circuit, presenting his music through DJ sets, live electronic performances, and multidisciplinary formats.

After relocating to New York, Yongolailan founded 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐚 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 in Brooklyn, an independent record label and creative platform connecting Caribbean cultural heritage with contemporary and international music production. Through the label and his work as a producer, he has collaborated with artists including Arema Arega, Cimafunk, Reynier Aldana, and Yelfris Valdez, among others. In 2026, together with Alexis Mendoza, director of NYLAAT, he co-founded 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐓, an annual New York festival held on Governors Island bringing together music, poetry, performance, movement, and Latin American art. Across recordings, festival appearances, DJ sets, live electronic performances, and collaborative projects, Yongolailan transforms the rhythms, memories, and spiritual resonances of the Afro-Caribbean world into a forward-looking electronic language.