"To describe Omar Sosa as an "Afro-Cuban" composer/pianist is like saying James Joyce was an Irish writer. Fixing his point of origin and the traditionthat spawned him doesn't begin to convey the singularity og is art, which, over the course of 22 albums as a leader (and seven Grammy nominations) since 1997, has mixed jazz and Latin rhythms with classical, flamenco, African and Middle Eastern elements to create a continuously surprising hybrid".