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
August 8, 2020
The Cuban Javier Jústiz renewed his contract today with the Casademont Zaragoza club for three more seasons and maintains his place in Spain's top basketball competition.
Source: Bohemia
August 8, 2020
With the campaign #MuchoMachetePorDarTodavía, the fifty years of the first publication, in the Pionero magazine, of the emblematic Cuban character Elpidio Valdés will be celebrated on August 14.
Source: Radio Baraguá
August 7, 2020
The only current Cuban world record holder in athletics is the protagonist of the fifteenth week of the Deporte entuMovil contest.
Source: Trabajadores
August 7, 2020
The Cuban-Mexican actress, Malillany Marín, after 25 years of an artistic career primarily in Mexico, has been selected to act in a series for Netflix, playing the famous designer Carolina Herrera.
Source: DCubanos
August 6, 2020
The Cuban-American rapper and producer Armando Christian Pérez, better known as Pitbull, is cooking up a special tribute to El Dany together with popular DJ IamChino.
Source: Cibercuba
August 6, 2020
The boy Dubiel Pupo Espinosa was buried in his native city Felton, Mayarí, in a ceremony in which family members were accompanied by the entire town along with the players with whom he made up the last baseball team that represented this province in the National Championship in the 9-10 years category.
Source: Granma, Jit
August 5, 2020
The emeritus king Juan Carlos of Spain, who announced his intention to leave the country last Monday due to the numerous judicial scandals in which he has been involved for alleged corruption, would currently be in the Dominican Republic with the Fanjul brothers, of Cuban origin, according to Spanish press reports.
Source: La vanguardia
August 5, 2020
Journalist Lázaro Barredo Medina, who directed the newspaper Granma between November 2005 and October 2013, founder of the Mesa Redonda and regular contributor to Cubadebate, passed away due to a cardiovascular condition.
Source: Bohemia
August 4, 2020
The warm transparencies achieved by Carlos Enríquez, the artist who knew how to macerate the secret of tropical light and awakened, for his vital expression, the Cuban landscape, –moving away from the commercialized image of the royal palm–; his portraits, of very personal stamp; his sensitivity as an artist and man of his time (Zulueta, Las Villas, 1900-La Habana, 1957), poured into the search for the national, and accompanied by the anguish and difficulties grown in those times, which left their mark on him.
Source: Cubarte
August 4, 2020
Cuban baseball player Yoenis Céspedes decided not to continue the rest of the 2020 season with the New York Mets.
Source: Diario de Cuba
