Aurora Pita Dies, National Prize Winner for Cuban Radio and Television

May 8, 2021

Aurora Pita knew how to win the sympathy, affection and respect of her audience, and in this her proven talent played a role, as well as that warm and cheerful way she had of speaking, even to people who were not close to her. For everyone there was a smile and even an occasional invitation to have coffee.

At dawn on May 7th we receive the news that she will be no more, and she definitively leaves a silence in the hallways of ICRT, or Radio Progreso, which she never completely abandoned.

Aurora Pita says goodbye; that beautiful woman who arrived in Cuba in her mother's arms, and along with her father, from Perlío, a town in the Ría de Ferrol, when just a few months old. The reason: to flee the Spanish Civil War and settle in this Island that she loved and in which she was loved.

Cuba opened its doors to her and she penetrated them through force of character and talent. She studied elocution and received painting lessons, an artistic expression that she was passionate about and knowledgeable in.

At just fourteen years old she obtained her first contract as an actress and came to work in eleven radio programs. Characters of poor girl at first, she was also "Purita" in the humorous space A reírse rápido in the late fifties; and she was "Electa Garrigó" in theater.

Television saw her shine in children's spaces, adventures and soap operas, such as in the series Los Vikingos. She played George Sand and Isabel I of England, Doña Gertrudris de Sandoval y Santa Cruz, in Sol de Batey, but undoubtedly "the Galician Catalina" in Para el año que viene, is and will always be her. As a tribute to her origins, this character combined sense of humor, sensitivity, humanism and great loyalty toward those she loved and toward what she believed in. She could well have been a mirror of herself. With this role Aurora Pita won the Caricato Prize from Uneac in 1995.

Elegance, distinction and her voice, warm while caressing, characterized her; she transmitted immense energy, and all that greatness translated into total simplicity. She collaborated with community projects where she prepared amateur actors and, furthermore, together with other collaborators she wrote a book about the role of women in the great Spanish currents.

National Prize for Cuban Radio and Television, ACTUAR Prize for Life's Work, Emeritus Artist of Cuban Radio and Television, honored with the Order for National Culture and holder of the Radio Microphone, are just some of the distinctions received by this great actress who alternated the grandeur of the stage with the joy of motherhood, which made her feel fulfilled in every sense, and whom we will continue to love in every sense.