Daymé Arocena has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 4 May 2015. Daymé Arocena's music has been featured on 12 episodes.

Daymé Arocena (born January 1992) is an Afro-Cuban jazz singer and composer from Havana who has been described as Cuba's "finest young female singer". She is on National Public Radio's (NPR) list of 50 favourite albums of 2015, with the album "Nueva Era".

Arocena won the 2015 Juno Award for the best jazz album as a member of the jazz band Maqueque performing with Canadian musician Jane Bunnett.