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
August 3, 2020
Roberto Fabelo has just received 399 thousand dollars obtained in a Christie's auction held this week, in which he managed to sell his painting 'Journey to the Fantastic Garden' at double the estimated price, making it a record for a work by this artist.
Source: Cubacute
August 3, 2020
The Cuban Marlon Yant Herrera apparently is destined for great endeavors and that was made evident today by the Italian press, with multiple praise for his innate talent for playing volleyball.
Source: Bohemia
August 2, 2020
Cuban casting director Libia Batista is the first professional of her specialty in Latin America and the Caribbean to have been selected to be part of the jury for the Oscar awards.
Source: OnCuba News
August 2, 2020
Artists from various artistic disciplines remember today one of the most respected creators of popular dance music on this continent, Cuban bassist and composer Juan Formell, who would have turned 78 years old.
Source: Prensa Latina
August 1, 2020
Cuban journalist Ismael Cala, known for his "Cala" program on the CNN network, decided to return to television after almost four years away due, in part, to the effects of the pandemic on his business ventures, reported the Efe news agency.
Source: Periódico Cubano
August 1, 2020
The billionaire and founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, told the United States Congress the life story of his Cuban father.
Source: Dime Cuba
July 31, 2020
The Historian of the City of Havana has died, Cuba mourns.
Source: Eusebio Leal.cu, Granma, Ecured
July 31, 2020
The film Mambo Man, by Cuban filmmaker Edesio Alejandro and British-Iranian Mo Fini, adds another award today by being selected as Best Feature Film of the season by the Best Global Shorts festival.
Source: TV Santiago
July 30, 2020
In an interview on the program "Cala," from the American network MegaTV, singer Aymée Nuviola revealed that she has contracted Covid-19.
Source: El Nuevo Día.com
July 30, 2020
Just days after the unexpected death of Cuban reggaeton artist Daniel Muñoz (El Dany), urban interpreter José Manuel Carvajal, better known as El Taiger, has wanted to honor the memory of the artist with the release of the last song they recorded together.
Source: Dime Cuba
July 29, 2020
The world record holder in high jump, Cuban Javier Sotomayor, expressed feeling happy and proud to maintain the world supremacy of 2.
Source: TyC Sports
July 29, 2020
Ramón Labañino participated in a virtual presentation here of his book Man of Silence, a prison diary.
Source: Prensa Latina
July 28, 2020
The renowned Cuban dancer, choreographer and director Carlos Acosta has been appointed a member of the Board of Governors of The Royal Ballet School, another award on his already long list of international recognitions and achievements.
Source: CubitaNow
July 28, 2020
The Cuban Institute of Music reported that in the early morning hours of this Tuesday, July 28, musician and professor Roberto Chorens Dotres passed away in Havana as a result of cardiac arrest.
Source: Radio Habana Cuba, Cubadebate
July 27, 2020
The Cuban Liván Moinelo kept today with his indecipherable pitches after his exit from the bullpen and contributed to the success of the SoftBank Hawks by 6-1 against the Nippon Ham Fighters, in the 2020 season of Japanese professional baseball.
Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias
July 27, 2020
The title of Illustrious Son of the city of Santiago de Cuba was awarded to Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), for his outstanding trajectory as a revolutionary, military strategist and statesman.
Source: Radio Baraguá
July 26, 2020
Sigfredo Ariel passed away this Sunday in Havana, a victim of cancer.
Source: CMHW
July 26, 2020
Cuban forward Marcel Hernández, who plays for the Cartaginés club, was selected as the best foreign player of the 2020 Clausura Tournament in the first division of Costa Rican football.
Source: Prensa Latina
July 25, 2020
Cuban troubadour Silvio Rodríguez will join several Argentine musicians and other Latin Americans on the upcoming 26th at a virtual festival organized by the Argentine-Cuban Fraternity Space (EFAC).
Source: Cubainformación
July 25, 2020
The Cuban doctor José Antonio Soto (Tony) passed away on Thursday, July 23 in Miami at the age of 56, a victim of COVID-19.
Source: Cibercuba
July 24, 2020
Her unmistakable voice, her eternal smile and the age that is the best-kept secret about perpetual youth are part of the characteristics that make the Cachita from Vivir del Cuento unique or the unforgettable voice behind characters like María Silvia and Eutelia, from Elpidio Valdés.
Source: Cubacute
