Arts Innovator: Andrés Levin

Andrés Levin built his first multitrack recording device at the age of eight in his parents’ home in Caracas. It was an appropriate start for an artist who has gone on to weave musical skill and technological precociousness into a career that has made him one of the most striking experimental artists of his generation.

Now 45, Levin is not only known for pushing the artistic envelope with his band, Yerba Buena, but also for his efforts to use music for social change. With his Cuban-born wife, actress/singer Cucu Diamantes, Levin organized the inaugural TEDxHabana conference in...

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