September 3, 2020
One of the main figures in Cuban plastic arts, sculptor José Villa Soberón, who this Wednesday turned 70 years old, continues working on multiple projects.
Source: Radio Habana Cuba
September 3, 2020
Paco Prats, National Film Prize 2020, passed away this Wednesday, September 2nd.
Source: Havana Film Festival
September 2, 2020
A music video for the song "A Bolero for You" by Eliades Ochoa, which he included on his most recent album "Let's Dance a Son" (2020), has been available on digital platforms since late August, this time alongside flamenco singer Argentina María López Tristancho.
Source: Granma
September 2, 2020
The authorities in Spain are investigating the death of Dairo Jovelar Ruiz, a 33-year-old Cuban adult film actor, model, and bodybuilder, who was found lifeless last Thursday, August 27, in Barcelona.
Source: Cubacute
September 1, 2020
The Cuban feature-length documentary A media voz, directed by Cuban filmmakers Patricia Pérez and Heidi Hassan, won the Silver Biznaga for Best Director in the Documentary section this Saturday during the awards ceremony of the 23rd edition of the Málaga Film Festival.
Source: Todo Cuba
September 1, 2020
In the province of Córdoba, a Cuban man is making history today with an infinite act of love and solidarity: after recovering from Covid-19, he became the largest plasma donor to save lives in Argentina.
Source: Prensa Latina
August 31, 2020
With more than fifty years of career on stage, Pablo Milanés has become one of the most important musicians in the entire Latin music scene.
Source: OnCuba News, La Voz de Cádiz
August 31, 2020
Today we congratulate the Cuban professor, narrator and poetess Nersys Teresita Felipe Herrera on her birthday, National Literature Prize winner 2011.
Source: TelePinar, Cubarte
August 30, 2020
Cuban boxer Erislandy Lara retained his super welterweight title from the World Boxing Association (WBA) this Saturday by defeating American Greg Vendetti at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles by unanimous decision in 12 rounds.
Source: Wikipedia
August 30, 2020
Raúl González PhD in clinical psychology, was born in Cuba in 1975, arrived in the United States at age five, and today directs the team of 14 researchers at Florida International University (FIU) assigned to research on brain development in adolescence.
Source: OnCuba News
August 29, 2020
I Told You So, the most recent album by renowned Cuban pianist and composer Harold López-Nussa, has been available since yesterday on virtual music platforms on the Internet.
Source: Radio Caribean.icrt.cu
August 29, 2020
The right-handed pitcher Raidel Martínez achieved his ninth save of the 2020 professional baseball season in Japan on Friday after covering a perfect inning at Tokyo Dome, and displays an ERA of 0.
Source: Cubadebate
August 28, 2020
A little over a year after presenting himself to the world, Christian Manuel Castellano Rangel returned to the media spotlight with success in his hands: he crushed 84 beer cans in one minute with his shoulder blades.
Source: Juventud Rebelde
August 28, 2020
Cuban salsa singer Issac Delgado shares with his Puerto Rican friend Gilberto Santa Rosa on the most recent album by El Caballero de la Salsa –titled Colegas–, whose first single La Familia, a duet with his "beloved brother" Tito Nieves, was presented on digital platforms on August 21st, the day he celebrated his 85th birthday.
Source: Granma
August 27, 2020
Those who know Lilita (the Lía from the current telenovela "El rostro de los días"), know that her frank smile expresses the cheerfulness and confidence with which she defends her views.
Source: Cubadebate
August 27, 2020
The name of Gente de Zona will continue to sound strong within the international music industry, as they have just secured their position for a good while within one of the most popular record companies in the Latin industry.
Source: Cibercuba
August 26, 2020
Adalberto Álvarez and his Son will premiere a new album, online, this Friday, August 28, when the Bis Music Record Label of Artex presents the CD-DVD Son para un sonero.
Source: Granma
August 26, 2020
The renowned painter, poet, narrator, critic, journalist and editor Pedro de Oraá, 2015 National Prize for Plastic Arts, passed away this Tuesday in the largest of the Antilles.
Source: Escambray
August 25, 2020
Jose "Pito" Abreu had a record-breaking day for the White Sox and for Cuba by surpassing 2 historic figures in the franchise and the country.
Source: Con las bases llenas.com
August 25, 2020
The XII International Ballet Festival of Cali, Colombia, will pay tribute to Prima Ballerina Assoluta Alicia Alonso, on the occasion of commemorating, on December 21st, the centennial of her birth.
Source: Granma
August 23, 2020
The popular Cuban actor Jorge Perugorría announced on Instagram that the Netflix series he stars in, "Four Seasons in Havana", will have a new season.
Source: ADN Cuba
August 23, 2020
The star Cuban pitcher Liván Moinelo works every day (or almost) in professional Japanese baseball.
Source: Jit
August 22, 2020
The excellent interpretation of a pedophile character, so controversial, undoubtedly very rarely seen on Cuban television, has evidenced the talent and merits that Roberto Espinosa possesses as an actor Perhaps you mention his name and some believe they don't know him, however, if you say "machi" or René, instantly memories would come of the controversial character from the soap opera El rostro de los días, played by actor Roberto Espinosa.
Source: Tribuna de La Habana, ADN Cuba
August 22, 2020
In the morning hours of August 21, 2020, the distinguished Cuban radio, film and TV actor Norberto Blanco passed away in Havana.
Source: Ecured
August 21, 2020
The documentary Portrait of an Artist Forever Adolescent (a history of cinema in Cuba), directed in 2019 by Manuel Herrera, will compete in the 23rd edition of the Málaga Festival, Spain, from August 21-30.
Source: CubaSi
August 21, 2020
Luis Dannys Morales, Cuba's top pitcher prospect, is in Mexican territory and intends to sign a contract with a Major League team.
Source: Cuballama, Pelotacubanausa.com
August 20, 2020
Cuban actress Tahimí Alvariño celebrated on Instagram that her account has reached 40 thousand followers, a respectable figure on said social network.
Source: ADN Cuba
August 20, 2020
The famous Cuban journalist María Elvira Salazar triumphed in the Republican primaries of Florida's 27th district, and will be fighting against Democrat Donna Shalala for a seat in Congress in November.
Source: ADN Cuba
August 19, 2020
After a long illness, Juan Dufflar Amel passed away at his home in the Cuban capital at the age of 86.
Source: Cubadebate
August 19, 2020
"In Lilí Martínez, several difficult things to achieve in the same sensibility were fused: an uncommon taste in son-style phrasing, mastery of the essences of classical piano, jazzy diction and the flavor of his tumbaos," wrote musicologist and writer Helio Orovio.
Source: Granma
August 18, 2020
Cuban boxer Jorge Luis Romero, runner-up in the 54 kilogram division at the I World Boxing Championship, passed away in Havana following complications with high blood pressure.
Source: Cubadebate
August 18, 2020
Humorist Alejandro García (Virulo) has composed this song titled Pórtate bien where he humorously criticizes the irresponsible behaviors that contribute to spreading COVID-19.
Source: Cubadebate
August 17, 2020
The Cuban reggaeton artist Yomil Hidalgo Puentes shared some images on his social networks of the first music video he will record without the presence of his artistic partner and friend Daniel Muñoz, better known as El Dany.
Source: ADN Cuba
August 17, 2020
The president of the Instituto Latino de la Música (ILM), Daniel Martín, offered an advance on social media of a tribute project to Cuba's prima ballerina assoluta, Alicia Alonso.
Source: Prensa Latina
August 16, 2020
'I conceived this work during Alicia Alonso's career as a Cuban dancer and choreographer, in the performances of Giselle, Carmen and other great works of the classical and romantic repertoire.
Source: Bohemia
August 16, 2020
The Cuban Yordan Álvarez connected a three-run home run in his first at-bat of the season after recovering from COVID-19, to contribute to the Houston Astros' 11-1 rout of the Seattle Mariners.
Source: OnCuba News
August 15, 2020
The great jazz musician Paquito D'Rivera, a true cultural legend of the Cuban diaspora and exile, will inaugurate the return of the Summer Concerts on the banks of the Hudson River next Wednesday at 7 pm, in the city of Weehawken, New Jersey.
Source: ADN Cuba
August 15, 2020
Pedro García Espinosa, founder of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry, ICAIC, died in Havana yesterday, August 14.
Source: Cubadebate
August 14, 2020
By Miguel Barnet There was any date I could have overlooked except this one.
Source: Granma
August 14, 2020
Cuban football suffers another heavy blow; on the morning of August 10, 2020, Juan Antonio Lotina Rodríguez passed away at his home in Miami, son of Juan Antonio Lotina Matín (1936-2006), one of the men who did the most for football on the island.
Source: El Nuevo Herald
August 13, 2020
The Batuta Award ceremony, the classical and concert music equivalent of the Grammy, which was to be held at the Teatro Martí on November 11th, is being postponed to April 24, 2021, due to the current COVID-19 situation.
Source: Prensa Latina
August 13, 2020
Technology will make it possible for two queens of Latin music, the deceased Cuban salsa singer Celia Cruz and the Puerto Rican reggaeton artist Ivy Queen, to unite their voices in a virtual duet that will be the centerpiece of the interactive festival Calle Ocho Live.
Source: Vanguardia
August 12, 2020
One of the most successful exponents of the Latin urban genre is the Cuban duo Gente de Zona.
Source: Cuballama
August 12, 2020
The Cuban Ariel Martínez entered the injured list of his Chunichi Dragons team, after presenting a sprain in his left hand that will keep him out of the Professional Baseball League of Japan.
Source: Bohemia
August 11, 2020
La Camerata Romeu, a women's orchestra directed by Maestro Zenaida Romeu, appears on the list of recordings competing this year for the Latin Grammy, for the contemporary classical work Al Partir, included on the album Renacimiento, by composer, producer and guitarist Yalil Guerra, also included among the selections vying for the Best Classical Music Album position.
Source: Tribuna de La Habana
August 11, 2020
The XXXIV edition of the Festival Il Cinema Ritrovato (Rediscovered Cinema) in Bologna 2020 will exhibit three restored films by Cuban director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, confirmed by the island's embassy in Italy.
Source: Prensa Latina
August 10, 2020
The prestigious Cuban troubadour Silvio Rodríguez recently wrote the following on his blog Segunda Cita: "I just read on Cubanos famosos (a site that, by the way, I didn't know), that today two very beloved poetesses were also born: Nancy Morejon and Exilia Saldaña, in addition to the bolero singer José Tejedor and the athlete Alberto Salazar.
Source: Segundacita blog oficial de Silvio Rodríguez
August 10, 2020
The forward Joel Apeztaguía became the first Cuban soccer player to play in the Champions League, when he lined up with Tre Fiore, from San Marino, in the 0-2 defeat against Linfield, from Northern Ireland.
Source: Cuba.cu
August 9, 2020
The Cuban boxer Osvary David Morrell claimed the World Boxing Association (WBA) crown in the 168-pound category by defeating his rival last Saturday night, Guyanese Lennox Allen, who had an undefeated professional record.
Source: Periodico Cubano
August 9, 2020
On celebrating the centennial of musicologist María Teresa Linares last August 6th, the poet and essayist Virgilio López Lemus has written: María Teresa Linares (Havana, August 14, 1920) has as her second surname that of Sabio (but with a slight version: Savio).
Source: Granma
