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February 20, 2020

The young Cuban singer Ivette Letusé, winner in 2010 of the 'Premio Ojalá', sponsored by the renowned singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez, presented this Tuesday her most recent album titled "Deseos" and produced with the Unicornio Label of Producciones Abdala.

Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias

February 19, 2020

Joy Color is an independent Cuban brand that specializes in creating jewelry from recycled materials.

Source: Vistar Magazine

February 19, 2020

The National Television Prize winner (2009), Nilda Collado passed away this Wednesday, February 19 in Havana at the age of 79.

Source: Granma

February 18, 2020

Haila María Mompié and Vania Borges will sing together again, after 20 years; this time during a European tour between July 5 and 30.

Source: CubaPlus Online

February 18, 2020

Ana De Armas is on the new cover of Vanity Fair United States.

Source: ECartelera.com

February 17, 2020

Fernando Pérez, the most recognized living Cuban filmmaker, confirmed today to Prensa Latina that he has already begun pre-production on his next fiction feature film, which will be based on several short stories.

Source: Cubasi

February 17, 2020

An approach to the work of the illustrious Cuban intellectual, who was honored at the 29th edition of the International Book Fair of Havana Upon enjoying a writing that reveals infinite feelings, ideas flow in abundance, assessments and nostalgias scattered in words that emanate from the most heartfelt passion.

Source: Bohemia

February 16, 2020

The Cuban Luis Enrique Zayas triumphed in the high jump at the elite indoor athletics meet in Val de Reuil, France, and maintained his good streak in his debut in a winter season.

Source: Cubadebate

February 16, 2020

On Friday, February 14, La Fabrica de Arte Cubano held a tribute to the beloved Cuban troubadour Santiago Feliú, on the sixth anniversary of his death, with a star bearing his name in the FAC Constellation, a space that premiered last October, very similar to Hollywood's Walk of Fame, which honors the stars of Cuban culture.

Source: Asere.com

February 14, 2020

The renowned editor, screenwriter and professor Nelson Rodríguez passed away this Wednesday at the age of 82.

Source: Cubacine

February 14, 2020

The troubadour Augusto Blanca will be the guest, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of his birth, of the cultural program Diálogos a viva voz which, under the direction of journalist and critic Fernando Rodríguez Sosa, will take place on Saturday, February 15, at three in the afternoon, at the Álbum Café, in Artemisa.

Source: Radio Rebelde

February 13, 2020

Cuban music climbs to new positions with the inclusion of a song by singer Yoyo Ibarra in Billboard magazine's Viva Friday list, which today keeps it in the selection made by its editors.

Source: Cubasí

February 13, 2020

The Sports City (CD) was the place where Teófilo Stevenson won his first world title and where he celebrated his last fight in Cuba, on the occasion of the Friendship Games, held parallel to the Olympic event in Los Ángeles 1984.

Source: Cubadebate

February 12, 2020

Personal record of 2.

Source: Cadena Agramonte

February 12, 2020

The first installment of a tetralogy of re-edited novels by Cuban writer Leonardo Padura under the title "The Four Seasons" was added last Sunday to the literary offerings of the XXIX International Book Fair of Havana.

Source: OnCuba News

February 11, 2020

Rosita Fornés arrived late in my life.

Source: Cubadebate

February 11, 2020

In one of the halls of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, prima ballerina Viengsay Valdés rehearses with Dany Hernández one of the most difficult pieces in the company's historical repertoire: Theme and Variations.

Source: CubaSi

February 9, 2020

Each of the works carried out by José Martí as an editor demonstrates that for him, within the broad world of communication, there was no minor task, assured in this capital the prestigious Cuban researcher, pedagogue and historian Pedro Pablo Rodríguez, in the context of the XXIX International Book Fair of Havana (FIL Cuba 2020).

Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias

February 9, 2020

After 13 seasons playing with seven Major League teams, Cuban Kendrys Morales officially announced his retirement as an active player on Friday in an interview with ESPN journalist Marly Rivera.

Source: Cubanet

February 8, 2020

The pictorial work of sculptor Agustín Cádernas (1927-2001), one of the great figures of Cuban art in the twentieth century, resurfaces now thanks to an exhibition at the Maison de l'Amérique Latine in Paris, which has recovered, together with the creator's widow, his drawings and watercolors.

Source: On Cuba

February 8, 2020

The Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler Mijaín López, ranked as the second best in the history of that discipline, confirmed that he will retire after competing in Tokyo 2020, where he aspires to a fourth Olympic gold for a grand finale.

Source: EFE

February 7, 2020

Google's search engine paid tribute this Thursday to the legendary Cuban singer and songwriter María Teresa Vera, with the creation of a "doodle" —temporary alteration of the homepage logo— for the artist's 125th birthday.

Source: Asere.com

February 7, 2020

Cuban pianist and composer Frank Fernández is preparing a concert today in a venue specially equipped for musical production in the historic Allerheiligen-Hofkirche church in Munich, Germany.

Source: CubaSi

February 6, 2020

The Cuban comedian Andy Vázquez, who played the character of Facundo Correcto in Vivir del Cuento until his controversial suspension from the popular Island television program, confirmed that he does not plan to return to Cuba from the United States, where he has been visiting since before the end of the year.

Source: OnCuba News

February 6, 2020

This is an awards ceremony for hip hop, R&B, soul music and dance that has existed since 2003, and which is currently held in countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and America.

Source: Vistar Magazine

February 5, 2020

The Cuban Javier Justiz, a member of the Spanish club Casademont Zaragoza, of the ACB Liga Endesa basketball league, will not compete for the rest of the 2020 season in that competition due to an injury to his left knee.

Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias

February 5, 2020

In an interview granted to Spanish journalist Sergio Heredia and published by the La Vanguardia website, 52-year-old Javier Sotomayor is a celebrity in sports; his world record in high jump of 2.

Source: La Vanguardia

February 4, 2020

A new James Bond saga is coming, and it will be Cuban actress Ana de Armas who becomes the new "Bond girl", returning to Cuba through fiction, as the film will recreate part of the Island, to get closer to Ana's origins, who continues to reap success in Hollywood.

Source: Directorio Cubano

February 4, 2020

Recently recognized with the 2019 National Prize for Cultural Research, María del Carmen Ariet García, Doctor of Historical Sciences, has more than fulfilled the Martian principle that "to educate is to deposit in each man all the human work that has preceded him.

Source: Granma

February 3, 2020

The Barbados International Independent Film Festival awarded the Special Lifetime Achievement Award to Cuban filmmaker Gloria Rolando.

Source: Radio Habana Cuba

February 3, 2020

With the book La naturaleza del estío, Cuban poet Luis Manuel Pérez-Boitel won the Nicolás Guillén National Poetry Prize 2020.

Source: Cubasi

February 2, 2020

Verónica Lynn, who has been the recipient of the Special Honorary Award for Performance "Enrique Almirante" 2019, awarded by the Artistic Representations Agency Caricatos, asserts that in her 66 years of artistic work, her life has been her profession.

Source: TV Cubana

February 2, 2020

The musician Wilfredo Naranjo Verdecia, director of the Original Orchestra of Manzanillo, deserved the Abdala Award on Tuesday afternoon, which is conferred by the Martiano Youth Movement (MJM).

Source: La Demajagua

February 1, 2020

No one can predict what romantic relationships will be like in the future.

Source: El Nuevo Herald

February 1, 2020

# Gastón Baquero, Poet and Journalist Gastón Baquero is, without a doubt, one of Cuba's greatest poets.

Source: OnCuba News

January 31, 2020

Cuban author Abel González Melo won the Casa de las Américas Prize 2020 in the Theater category for the work "Bayamesa.

Source: Granma

January 31, 2020

The legendary Cuban singer Omara Portuondo shared the stage with Puerto Rican salsa singer Andy Montañez in a recent performance by the Diva of Buena Vista Social Club at Plaza Antón Recio in the Los Sitios neighborhood in Havana.

Source: OnCuba News

January 30, 2020

The former Cuban high jumper Javier Sotomayor received this Monday the Sports Legend award, during the gala celebrated by the prestigious Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo.

Source: Radio Reloj

January 30, 2020

At the conference, there was discussion of a documentary that will soon be exhibited in these parts and has already been screened in some states of the United States and countries in Europe, titled "Eliades Ochoa: from Cuba to the world", which recognizes him a place in the history of Cuban music.

Source: Radio Habana Cuba

January 29, 2020

Ana de Arma generates interest in both the press and the public, and that may have been one of the reasons why she was selected to bring Marilyn Monroe to life in Blonde, Netflix's new production.

Source: Vanguardia.com

January 29, 2020

The musical event will be dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Cuban maestro Leo Brouwer and the program of activities will span the provinces of Cienfuegos and Santiago de Cuba.

Source: Cubasi

January 27, 2020

The Cuban group Orishas and Spanish singer Beatriz Luengo premiered the song "Ojalá pase" this week.

Source: ADN Cuba

January 27, 2020

Unexpected for many, but more than transcendental for the Island's audience, was Cuban musician Aymée Nuviola tying with Puerto Rican Marc Anthony at the Grammy Awards.

Source: Cubatel

January 26, 2020

On January 25th, Mirtha performed a concert at Alfaro's to celebrate her birthday, which will be on January 28th.

Source: El Nuevo Herald

January 26, 2020

We reproduce the interview published on the digital site La trinchera conducted by journalist Sender Escobar.

Source: La Trinchera

January 25, 2020

It was around 1979.

Source: OnCuba News

January 25, 2020

The imminent publication of a report on the functioning of the Luxembourg monarchy has set off alarms in the royal house.

Source: El País

January 24, 2020

The host of "Caso Cerrado", Ana María Polo, announced that she will have her own movie.

Source: Asere, ABC.es

January 24, 2020

It's normal for someone who receives an Award to feel immensely gratified by their work, but the case that titles this note should be interpreted differently: The Union of Journalists of Cuba is honored to have granted the Prize of Dignity to Graziella Pogolotti.

Source: Radio Habana Cuba

January 23, 2020

The educator Asela de los Santos passed away on January 23, 2020.

Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias