page_title: Máxima Alerta
hierarchical_section_title: Máxima Alerta
caption_attribution_description: English: The Cubaton band Máxima Alerta performing at SOB's in NYC. From left to right: Claudio Lozano, band founder and lead singer Ray Machado, and Lucio Fernandez.
context_page_description: Máxima Alerta is a Cuban-American fusion music band known for its merging of Cuban reggaeton, or Cubaton, with traditional Cuban music and other Latin musical genres.
  The band, founded in 1999 by Ray Machado in Santa Clara, Cuba, is credited, along with the band Cubanito 20.02, for popularizing Cubaton. Stylistically, it is known for its incorporating son Cubano, conga, cumbia, salsa, merengue, and Cuban rumba, as well as styles and forms such as rap and ballads. After the band was banned from performing in Cuba, Machado emigrated to Hudson County, New Jersey in the United States, where it resumed performing in 2011, playing in local venues such as the Park Performing Arts Center and Maxwell's, and at New York City locations such as The Bitter End.
context_section_description: Máxima Alerta is a Cuban-American fusion music band known for its merging of Cuban reggaeton, or Cubaton, with traditional Cuban music and other Latin musical genres.
  The band, founded in 1999 by Ray Machado in Santa Clara, Cuba, is credited, along with the band Cubanito 20.02, for popularizing Cubaton. Stylistically, it is known for its incorporating son Cubano, conga, cumbia, salsa, merengue, and Cuban rumba, as well as styles and forms such as rap and ballads. After the band was banned from performing in Cuba, Machado emigrated to Hudson County, New Jersey in the United States, where it resumed performing in 2011, playing in local venues such as the Park Performing Arts Center and Maxwell's, and at New York City locations such as The Bitter End.
caption: The band performing at SOB's in
  New York City in 2017
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