# Radamés Giro Almenares Passes Away

**Date:** 09/19/2022

Tonight, Radamés Giro Almenares passed away in Havana at the age of 82, a musician, editor, researcher, musicographer, writer and manager of an extensive editorial work.



Born in Santiago de Cuba, in a family of troubadours, he developed a career as a musician from a very young age, participated as a volunteer in the Literacy Campaign and studied Theater at the National School of Art Instructors.



He began his work as an editor at Pueblo y Educación and Arte y Literatura publishing houses and was part of the founding group of Editorial Letras Cubanas. Since 2006 he served as principal editor of Ediciones Museo de la Música.



His most ambitious and far-reaching work was the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Music in Cuba, whose first edition appeared in 2007. Resulting from forty years of uninterrupted research, this book is considered an indispensable source of information and required consultation.



A member of UNEAC and advisor to the Smithsonian Foundation, he was deserving of, among others, the National Award for Publishing, Annual Award for Cultural Research and the Scientific-Technical Criticism Award.



For his meritorious intellectual work he received the Alejo Carpentier Medal, the Distinction for National Culture and the Raúl Gómez García Order, among other recognitions.



On behalf of the Institute of Music and the Ministry of Culture, our deepest condolences are extended to his family and friends.