June 11, 2019
Writer for radio, theater, and television.
Source: La Jiribilla
June 11, 2019
The Cuban Volleyball Federation informs that former members of the national team Robertlandy Simón, Michael Sánchez and Raydel Hierrezuelo officially submitted their request to be reinstated in our athlete registry.
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June 10, 2019
The poet, narrator, journalist and filmmaker Víctor Casaus will be the guest, on Thursday, June 13, at four in the afternoon, of the space Páginas inéditas, conducted by journalist and critic Fernando Rodríguez Sosa, at the Fayad Jamís Bookstore, at Obispo 261, between Cuba and Aguiar, in the Historic Center of Havana.
Source: Cubarte
June 10, 2019
First it was in a personal conversation, then came the official letter from the president of Panan Sport, Chilean Neven Ilic, to confirm a new title for the three-time Olympic champion and five-time world gold medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling, Mijaín López.
Source: Cubadebate
June 9, 2019
We are precisely in Granma where what is Cuban is born, and that is one of the greatest gifts they have given me, expressed the distinguished musician Wilfredo (Pachy) Naranjo, who was honored in this Sacred Altar of the Homeland, on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
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June 8, 2019
The renowned Cuban musician Mayito Rivera announces several performances in Europe on his social media.
Source: SuenaCubano
June 8, 2019
"I teach young people with the same love that I was taught," expressed Grand Master Jesús Nogueiras, upon initiating a simultaneous exhibition at the Chess Palace "Guillermo García" in Santa Clara.
Source: Prensa Latina
June 7, 2019
The young Cuban goalkeeper who plays for Sporting de Gijón will make his debut with the first team, amid rumors indicating interest from Real Madrid and Liverpool to secure his services.
Source: OnCuba News
June 7, 2019
Cuban pole vaulter Yarisley Silva achieved her best jump of the year and finished in fourth place at the most recent stop of the Diamond League.
Source: Cubadebate
June 6, 2019
Eliades Ochoa reunited with his people last Sunday, hundreds of people answered his call for more than an hour with a repertoire that he shared with an audience knowledgeable and devoted to the work of this bard.
Source: TV Serrana
June 6, 2019
François Hollande, former president of France, received the Historian of Havana, Eusebio Leal, this Wednesday in Paris, according to diplomatic sources.
Source: Cubadebate
June 5, 2019
Cuban filmmaker Marilyn Solaya announced today the premiere of the documentary "In Search of a Space," which addresses the role of women in the construction of the nation and citizenship on the island.
Source: CubaSi
June 5, 2019
Specialists and academics highlighted in France the ICAIC Latin American Newsreels and their main creator, Cuban Santiago Álvarez, as part of the Latin America and Caribbean Week that continues its activities today.
Source: Granma
June 4, 2019
The Ediciones Boloña seal (Raíces collection) has a new installment of the title Crónicas habaneras, a tribute to the city of La Habana that is approaching its 500th anniversary of its founding.
Source: CubaSi
June 4, 2019
From the hands of the Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales (EGREM) comes to digital platforms "A romper el coco", a phonogram that brings together for the first time three greats of Cuban music: Alexander Abreu, Alain Pérez and Mayito Rivera.
Source: Bohemia
June 3, 2019
The ashes of the prominent Cuban actor Salvador Wood will be displayed on Tuesday, June 4, in the Avellaneda room of the Teatro Nacional de Cuba, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Source: Cubarte
June 3, 2019
Approximately 500 to 600 people enjoyed the concert offered by Haydée Milanés last Thursday the 30th at the Lunario of the National Auditorium of Mexico.
Source: Cuballama
June 3, 2019
The sensitivity of Asian culture and the electrifying energy of Afro-Cuban music dialogue in «Mine Kawakami and Chucho Valdés», a recording published by Sony Classical, after being recorded in Spain with these two protagonists.
Source: CubaSi
June 2, 2019
The outstanding Cuban actor in cinema, radio, television and theater, Salvador Wood, National Television Prize for a Lifetime of Work, has passed away this Saturday at the age of 90.
Source: Cubadebate
June 2, 2019
The Cuban saxophonist and clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera and Paraguayan guitarist Berta Rojas shared the stage again this Saturday, May 25th at a concert organized by the Classical Guitar Society of Miami.
Source: El Nuevo Herald
June 2, 2019
The prima ballerina assoluta cubana, Alicia Alonso, received last Friday the insignia of the Official College of Architects of the Valencian Community, Spain.
Source: Cuba.cu
June 1, 2019
At the XV International Film Festival of Gibara (FIC 2019), Cuban actress Daisy Granados, her compatriot director Fernando Pérez, and Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro will be awarded the Lucía de Honor Prize.
Source: Cubadebate
June 1, 2019
The former pitcher Braudilio Vinent remained hospitalized yesterday, Friday, at the Saturnino Lora Teaching Clinical Surgical Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, due to a urinary condition, reported the CMKC radio station.
Source: Granma
May 31, 2019
The Cuban Yurisbel Gracial connected his ninth home run of the campaign this Wednesday, contributing to the victory of the SoftBank Falcons over the Orix Buffaloes in the Pacific zone of the Japanese Professional Baseball League.
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May 31, 2019
The poet, musician, balladist and one of the most popular composers of the present day, Cuban Descemer Bueno, will make his debut today in Buenos Aires in a concert that he has put a lot of love into.
Source: Cuba.cu
May 30, 2019
No one can deny the feeling of Cuban spirit that comes from enjoying singer Aymée Nuviola.
Source: El Nuevo Herald
May 30, 2019
The National Council of the Performing Arts has prepared a colloquium in honor of the 90th birthday of Cuban theater director Vicente Revuelta, founder of the Grupo Teatro Estudio and an essential figure in the local theater scene.
Source: Cubadebate
May 29, 2019
The Cuban composer, pianist, and cultural disruptor Chucho Valdés premiered a composition on Saturday night at Bellas Artes in homage to the person who made him a musician: Caridad Amaro, his grandmother, and he corrected the history of written music in popular imagination: it's true, Chucho entered the pantheon by the hand of his father, Bebo Valdés, but to whom he owes his love for sounds and their silences is his grandmother.
Source: Cubadebate
May 29, 2019
Regarding the concerts offered at the Sunset Center in Carmel, the main cultural center of California's central coast, the specialized local critics noted that while Marcos Madrigal enjoys fast sequences and technically difficult passages in any piece, according to the performer himself "his soul rests deeply in the softest passages".
Source: La Jiribilla
May 29, 2019
The prestigious and popular musician Benny Moré is part of the group of the 10 most influential Latin American figures in the hundred years spanning 1921 to 2021.
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May 28, 2019
Idalys Ortiz won the gold medal at the Hohhot, China Judo Grand Prix, confirming her position at the top of the world ranking in the +78 kg division.
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May 28, 2019
The Cuban duo Gente de Zona premiered their fourth studio album last Friday, May 24th, under the title Otra cosa.
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May 27, 2019
The Cuban baseball player Alfredo Despaigne Rodríguez, who plays in the Japanese League with the SoftBank Hawks, surpassed 400 home runs in his sports career last Friday and tied his personal record for a month in the Japanese Professional League (LPJ) by hitting two home runs against the Chiba Lotte Marines.
Source: CubaDebate
May 27, 2019
After having recorded more than 50 CDs and composed hundreds of songs, many of them authentic anthems of Cuban trova and song, Pablo Milanés presents a work of jazz and American standards from all time.
Source: El País
May 26, 2019
Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez will offer on May 31st the 102nd concert of his "Tour through the Neighborhoods," in which he will have as a guest the National Symphonic Orchestra (OSN), announced the organizers today.
Source: Cubadebate
May 26, 2019
THE documentary With Soul in the Land, about the life and work of Jaime Crombet Hernández-Vaquero —who passed away on May 25, 2013— premiered on Saturday, May 25, 2019 at 10:30 in the morning at the Palace of Fine Arts.
Source: Juventud Rebelde
May 25, 2019
Today's premiere in this capital of the work "Mojito con saoco", by renowned Cuban composer Guido López Gavilán, will be the main attraction of the concert by the Cuban-American Youth Orchestra on the occasion of Cubadisco 2019.
Source: CubaSi
May 25, 2019
Words for Salomón: Whoever has read the impressive curriculum of Salomón Gadles Mikowsky might think that this mission of praise should correspond to an academic, or a pianist; but it happens that I am here simply as a Cuban who is grateful for the years of talent and gift—the vocation of service to his people—that this Master of music exercises with generosity; and that right, the right to give thanks from the heart, no hardship can take from me.
Source: Segundacita blog oficial de Silvio Rodríguez
May 25, 2019
Luis Manuel Molina, one of Cuba's most outstanding guitarists and pedagogues whose music inspires you, recently celebrated 40 years of artistic life and his 60th birthday with a concert at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana.
Source: La Jiribilla
May 25, 2019
"Rain and Fire" is Isaac Delgado's most recent album, and it was presented today as a gift to consumers of contemporary Cuban music.
Source: CubaSi
May 25, 2019
The University of the Arts (ISA) presented yesterday the Doctor Honoris Causa in Art to pianist and pedagogue Salomón Gadles Mikowsky, an award he received from the hands of Alexis Seijo, Rector of the prestigious House of Higher Studies The University of the Arts (ISA) presented the title of Doctor Honoris Causa in Art to pianist and pedagogue Salomón Gadles Mikowsky, an award he received from the hands of Alexis Seijo, Rector of the prestigious House of Higher Studies.
Source: Granma
May 24, 2019
Bárbara Llanes will be accompanied by Karla Martínez on piano and by Lester Chio on clarinet, a format called Trío Nueva Habana and constitutes a new project belonging to the Concert Music Center of Cuba's Ministry of Culture.
Source: Bohemia
May 24, 2019
Rubén González was a wise and delicate man; he did not boast of his great musical virtues; he placed the notes in their place, and the soul in each chord.
Source: Granma
May 23, 2019
The Cuban Embassy in Japan has informed that the Japanese government announced the foreign personalities and artists who receive this year 2019, the decoration Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette.
Source: Radio Cadena Habana
May 23, 2019
The gala "Music Unites Us" will take place on May 25 at the Karl Marx Theater for the 55th anniversary of the Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales (EGREM), and as part of the International Cuban Music Fair Cubadisco 2019.
Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias
May 23, 2019
The Latin Institute of Music (ILM) announced the screening of a new animated series that, among its characters, will feature the renowned Cuban composer, guitarist, and orchestra conductor Leo Brouwer.
Source: Prensa Latina
May 23, 2019
On May 19th, during the presentation of her book "La resina ámbar" at the Coral Gables Library in a commemorative event marking the 124th anniversary of the fall of the Apostle José Martí, the advisor and representative of the UNESCO Culture Center of Puerto Rico presented writer and painter Zaida del Río with recognition from the UNESCO Culture Center and the Golden Pen award from Entre Líneas publishing house, granted by Alfredo A.
Source: YouTube
May 22, 2019
The president of the Havana Film Festival, Iván Giroud, was invited to be part of the jury for the L´Oeil d´or-Documentary Award (Golden Eye Documentary in English) section of the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival.
Source: CubaCine.cult.cu
May 22, 2019
The Cuban singer Leoni Torres and Spanish performer Rosario Flores premiered the official video of their first musical collaboration titled "Se me olvidó quererte" on the main internet platforms.
Source: CubaSi
May 22, 2019
"The good journalist prefers to save the news rather than his life" said Cuban Alfredo Martirena this Tuesday, winner of the Excellence Award in the Press Freedom Cartoon Contest in Canada.
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