Judy Cantor-Navas is a music journalist and curator. She wrote for Cartelera (in New York, LA, and Barcelona) for more than a decade and is now a regular contributor to the website of the Gladys Palmera Collection in Madrid. In 2020, she was nominated for a Grammy for the album notes for The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions, a box set reissue of five historic recordings originally released on Cuba’s Panart label; she served as a co-producer of the collection. Cantor-Navas has also been a reporter, critic, and staff writer for The Associated Press (New York City desk and Spain correspondent), Buenos Aires Herald, Miami New Times, y Miami Herald. She and her husband, artist and animator David Navas, created El Pequeño Circo de Asno y Camello, an illustrated children’s book. They also create nonfiction comics, which have been published in international magazines. Among Cantor-Navas’ most recent work was the translation of Cha-Cha-Cha (Gladys Palmera Collection), a beautifully illustrated chronicle that bears witness to the seemingly infinite ways three little words can be combined to spell out the onomatopoeic name of one of the world’s most infectious – and joyful – rhythms.