Okan is a Juno Award-winning Canadian Afro-Cuban jazz group, whose core members are Cuban Canadian musicians Elizabeth Rodriguez and Magdelys Savigne, both former members of Jane Bunnett's band Maqueque. They perform both as a duo, and as leaders of a larger combo featuring session musicians. [1]
Rodriguez and Savigne left Maqueque in 2017 to form Okan. [1] They were nominated for World Music Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2020 for their 2019 debut album Sombras. [2]
They are noted for their 2020 album Espiral, which won the Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2021. [3] Their 2023 album, Okantomi, won the same award at the Juno Awards of 2024. [4]