September 2, 2018
Master Leo Brouwer, one of the essential names in the field of academic music, was named Cultural Ambassador of the Instituto Latino de la Música, founded in Mexico City in 1921.
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September 1, 2018
The Cuban triple jumper Pedro Pablo Pichardo made a splendid fourth jump that allowed him to take the gold medal at the final stop of the Brussels Diamond League.
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September 1, 2018
The Cuban discus thrower Yaimé Pérez pulled off the big surprise of the day in Brussels and defeated Croatian Sandra Perkovic for the third time in history, a performance that allowed her to win the final competition of the 2018 Diamond League and thereby claim the coveted gem.
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August 31, 2018
Cuban jazz pianist Chucho Valdés, along with Napoleón, Yuri, Wilfrido Vargas, Dyango, Andy Montañez and Erasmo Carlos, will be recognized with the award for musical excellence at the next Latin Grammy Awards ceremony, announced the Latin Recording Academy.
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August 31, 2018
The most important media outlets in Peru have echoed the concert that local artist Susana Baca will perform tomorrow, Wednesday the 29th at the Gran Teatro Nacional in Lima, Peru, to which the prestigious singer, winner of two Latin Grammy Awards, has invited Cuban Argelia Fragoso, known as "the Golden Voice of Cuba".
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August 30, 2018
The Cuban historian and writer Yoel Cordoví presented his book Máximo Gómez.
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August 30, 2018
Lis Vega leaves her followers speechless with a daring nude on Instagram The Cuban actress and dancer Lis Vega broke Instagram's rules and shared a racy image.
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August 29, 2018
Cuban pole vaulter Yarisley Silva, Olympic silver medalist from London 2012 and world champion in Beijing 2015, will not participate in the Diamond League stop in Zurich due to an injury.
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August 29, 2018
In the early morning hours of this Wednesday, August 29th, the distinguished Cuban poetess Carilda Oliver Labra passed away at the age of 96 at her home in Matanzas.
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August 28, 2018
The Álbum Kafé of the Egreem in the Santiago municipality of Palma Soriano was the place chosen to present the book Estela Rodríguez Villanueva, the ebony of Cuban women's judo, from Editorial Deportes 2017, by authors Ronaldo Veitía Valdivie and Cándido Pérez Agüero.
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August 28, 2018
Kendrys Morales tried to make contact with the ball, but failed to hit it out of the park.
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August 27, 2018
Cuban singer Xiomara Laugart, based in New York, will dedicate a concert to the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre on September 2nd in Santiago de Cuba.
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August 27, 2018
Maria Elvira Salazar says her Republican opponents could learn a few things about how to report events.
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August 26, 2018
A massive pilgrimage to the tomb of Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré Gutiérrez, Benny Moré, is already a tradition in the town of Santa Isabel de las Lajas each August 24th, when the birth of this figure who became a legend in Cuban musical history is celebrated with cheers and songs, not only for succeeding despite being Black, poor, and descended from slaves, but for his impeccable voice and his particular way of making and feeling music.
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August 25, 2018
The Cuban singer based in Mexico, Lenny de la Rosa, has revealed that he wishes to occupy the place left by the Prince of Song, José José.
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August 24, 2018
Lázaro Bruzón is out of the Cuban team that will attend the World Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia, in the second half of September next.
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August 23, 2018
Aroldis Chapman visited the doctor in Miami in the morning and in the afternoon his name appeared on the disabled list.
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August 23, 2018
The outstanding Cuban musician Roberto Fonseca, along with his group Temperamento, will offer a concert titled "A Style of Its Own for Making Jazz" this Saturday the 25th, at 8:30 p.
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August 22, 2018
Recently premiered at Starlite the show, Celia Cruz, El Musical, a project that, under the direction of actress and singer Lucrecia, takes a journey through the life of the Queen of Cuban son, Celia Cruz: "We want to bring Cuba to Starlite, to perform here, in a place surrounded by nature, it is Celia's freedom," commented the actress at the beginning.
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August 22, 2018
The troubadour Pablo Milanés will offer a concert on September 7th at the Karl Marx theater, in Havana.
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August 21, 2018
Deputies who think differently about many things agreed on a distinction.
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August 21, 2018
Ernesto Lecuona, the great composer, is often attributed Spanish nationality on many occasions.
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August 20, 2018
In a recently published article in the newspaper Granma, Dr.
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August 20, 2018
The Cuban singer Liuba María Hevia presented a documentary about Teresa Fernández on the Mesa Redonda program of Cuban Television, an endearing singer-songwriter in her country, as generations of children grew up and still adore the songs composed by her.
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August 19, 2018
William Levy announced that he will join the cast of the musical series 'Star', a television production in which he will share scenes with Queen Latifah and Benjamin Bratt.
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August 18, 2018
Last Friday, August 10, Haydée Milanés performed in concert at the Habana Café at the Meliá Cohíba hotel, with special participation by Chucho Valdés and Argentine singer Patricia Sosa, with whom the Cuban pianist recently released an album.
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August 18, 2018
The show "Humor in Cuban Song" starring singer-songwriters Alejando García Virulo, Jorge Díaz and Tony Ávila will conclude on Saturday, August 18, at the Havana-based Teatro Karl Marx.
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August 16, 2018
A meeting with part of the artistic personnel who participated in the filming of the film The Man from Maisinicú was held this Wednesday in the lobby of the Chaplin cinema, 45 years after the premiere of the film about the martyr of the Struggle Against Bandits, Alberto Delgado Delgado, directed by Manuel Pérez.
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August 16, 2018
"And how do you want me to say in a few lines all the good and new things I could say about that lover of beauty, who wanted it in letters as in the things of life, and never wrote except about truths of his heart or about sorrows of his homeland?" No words more endowed with tenderness and affection about Rafael María de Mendive exist than those of José Martí, the eminent student who gave his life to the just cause of achieving independence.
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August 15, 2018
With the name Montuneros de Cuba, the traditional music group that accompanied Pío Leyva in his artistic career resurfaced in the municipality of Morón in Avila.
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August 15, 2018
It may seem vulgar the title of this commentary, but I'm sharing it because I believe it was one of the best phrases spoken on the afternoon of Thursday, August 2nd.
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August 14, 2018
The National Auditorium of this capital overflowed with dance, music, luxury voices and good scenography, with the show "Cuba Vibra", under the direction of Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba.
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August 14, 2018
Tosca passed away at age 63 as a result of kidney failure.
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August 13, 2018
Cuban Olympic champion Idalys Ortiz conquered the gold medal at the Budapest Grand Prix Judo tournament in Hungary, the only one obtained by the delegation of ten Cubans present at the event.
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August 12, 2018
Yale is a poetry collection that came together on its own; the author did not set out to write a book of poems, in reality the texts that compose it earned that place on its pages.
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August 11, 2018
Cuban pianist and composer Chucho Valdés announced this Wednesday in Havana that his next album Jazz Batá II will be released next October and will be dedicated to the centennial of the birth of his father, renowned musician Bebo Valdés (1918-2013).
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August 10, 2018
Daymé Arocena, one of the most current and pleasing revelations of Cuban music, will perform in concert at five thirty in the afternoon this Friday, on the main stage of the Havana-based Pabellón Cuba, to open a weekend of pleasant sound surprises.
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August 10, 2018
I arrive at Silvio Rodríguez —a man of thought, more than a troubadour— without pretensions of discovering hidden niches for him, because he has been one of the great transparent figures of Cuban culture.
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August 9, 2018
The stars of Cuban music Adalberto Álvarez, Edesio Alejandro and César "Pupy" Pedroso will receive the recognition of Cultural Ambassadors from the Latin Institute of Music (ILM), for their long trajectory and professional work.
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August 9, 2018
Created by British stage director Christopher Renshaw, Carmen La Cubana is a version of versions, as it is inspired by both Oscar Hammerstein's Carmen Jones and Bizet's celebrated French opera.
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August 8, 2018
In this Havana summer, the National Museum of Fine Arts makes it possible for visitors to the Universal Art Building of the institution to come into contact with the work of one of the creators who in the middle of the last century achieved a distinctive mark in the local sphere: Luis Martínez Pedro.
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August 8, 2018
When it seems that emotions rest in a remote corner of routine, a documentary awakens us to yesterdays, almost faded, and then a joy appears with the spirit and image of an anonymous hero, The man of Maisinicú.
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August 7, 2018
The renowned Cuban cartoonist and animator Juan Padrón will inaugurate this Saturday, August 11, at the Servando Cabrera Gallery in the capital, a personal exhibition titled Tan fiero como lo pintan.
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August 6, 2018
Kelvis Ochoa Returns to Make a Big Splash After Concert in the Courtyard of the National Museum of Fine Arts, Cuban Art Building.
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August 6, 2018
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary celebration of the provincial channel Tele Rebelde (TR), Clara Inocencia Castillo Alcántara and Enrique Alberto Bonne Castillo received the National Television Award for their notable contributions and dedication to the medium.
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August 5, 2018
Cuban and Spanish producers and artists such as Lucrecia and Mayito Rivera presented the "¡Mambo Madness!" movement in Miami, through which they intend to spread the "craze" of this rhythm again using an album and an orchestra of 23 musicians.
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August 4, 2018
Works by choreographers from the United Kingdom, Spain, and Cuba will be part of the Summer season of the Acosta Danza company, from August 17 to 19, in Havana.
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August 4, 2018
The current season of the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba, directed by maestro Enrique Pérez Mesa, will close this Sunday, August 5, 2018, at 11:00 a.
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August 3, 2018
Nephew of educator Raúl Ferrer and one of his most outstanding students, the troubadour has given form to themes that have been treasured as essential by that faithful audience that has followed him for decades at his concerts.
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