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January 11, 2022

"I evoked him in dreams, and love itself sought me out, approached me, reached me, united me forever to its TIME", wrote singer Ivette Cepeda on her Facebook profile to announce the premiere of the video for her recent song Evocaciones, a song written by Polito Ibáñez.

January 10, 2022

José María Vitier declared himself blessed to be a musician on the island of music.

January 10, 2022

From the series Calendario, a recent premiere on the Cubavisión channel, some details have already been announced.

January 8, 2022

César Prieto, a baseball player from Cienfuegos who left last May the team that would participate in the Baseball Pre-Olympic in Florida, United States, will sign with the Baltimore Orioles when the next international signing period begins on January 15.

January 8, 2022

The National Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities 2021 was awarded on January 6 to Doctor of Economic Sciences, Full Professor and Professor Emeritus, José Luis Rodríguez García.

January 7, 2022

With the objective of highlighting the intense and fruitful teaching and research activity developed by Professor Alberto Juan Dorta Contreras in the different contexts where he worked, this activity will emphasize his contribution to science through stories narrated by his students and colleagues in first person, from their personal experiences, as a tribute to one who in life was a scientist dedicated to the training of new researchers and who passed away in 2021 as a result of COVID-19.

January 7, 2022

Writer and narrator Julio Travieso Serrano received this Thursday the National Prize for Literature 2021.

January 6, 2022

Cuban presenter José Carlos Pérez Córdoba, popularly known as Carlucho, announced the re-edition in Miami of the memorable humorous television program from Cuban television "Kicking the Can", which was very popular on the island during the years it was on air, from 1995 to 2001.

January 6, 2022

Alejandro García, Virulo, confessed it to the press during the presentation of the phonogram "Crónicas de la pandemia", produced by the Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales (EGREM) and which, many years from now, will allow us to revisit these times of pandemic from multiple perspectives, critical, hopeful and, of course, very sympathetic, just as we Cubans have always been.

January 5, 2022

María Cristina, a work by Julio César García, a Cuban creator whose workshop is located in Matanzas, is included among the pieces that will make up an exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of the Soho Photo Gallery, an organization that promotes artistic photography in the American city of New York.

January 5, 2022

"The grandfather of Rap", the director of Cubanos en la Red, the defender of the environment, of the "Pachamama", Osmel Francis Turner passed away in Havana.

January 4, 2022

Luisa Georgina Cabrera Parada, Gina Cabrera to the people of Cuba and to the world, was one of the founders of television on the island.

January 4, 2022

Leyanis Pérez, from Pinar del Río, is the most promising revelation of the year that is just ending and one of the greatest talents in contemporary Cuban athletics.

January 3, 2022

The American Grand Master of Cuban origin Leinier Domínguez ranked in fifteenth place in the first ranking of 2022, according to the official website of the International Chess Federation.

January 3, 2022

From the most unusual spaces for dance within the Gran Teatro de La Habana Alicia Alonso, the Ballet Nacional de Cuba (BNC) starred in the gala that is annually held in tribute to the revolutionary triumph of 1959.

January 2, 2022

The prestigious Forbes magazine published its traditional list of the most influential people of the year, in which each of those selected "has played some key role in Spanish politics, economics or society" or even "sometimes in all of them at once", and it is Cuban actress Ana de Armas who tops that list.

January 2, 2022

The emblematic Cuban musician based in Miami, Willy Chirino, announced an upcoming concert together with popular singer Leoni Torres in Florida.

January 1, 2022

On Thursday, December 30th, it was announced that José María Vitier García-Marruz was selected by a jury presided over by the master and National Music Prize winner, Digna Guerra, and also composed of fellow national prize winners Joaquín Betancourt, Guido López-Gavilán and Edesio Alejando, and musicologist Laura Vilar, director of Cidmuc (Center for Research and Development of Cuban Music), and they awarded him the National Music Prize 2021.

January 1, 2022

The outstanding Cuban baseball players Armando Capiró and Rogelio García are among the new inductees to the Palmar de Junco Hall of Fame, located in the iconic baseball stadium of the same name, in the western province of Matanzas.

December 31, 2021

The Americas branch of the International Association of Sports Press recognized Jesús G.

December 31, 2021

Cuban pitcher Odrisamer Despaigne will be with the KT Wiz in the upcoming season of the Korean Professional Baseball League, after receiving a new contract worth 1.

December 30, 2021

The researcher Gilberto Silva Taboada (Havana, November 21, 1927), received on December 28 this year, at the National Museum of Decorative Arts, the National Prize for Cultural Heritage for lifetime achievement, 2021, which was awarded to him by the National Council of Cultural Heritage (CNPC), of the Ministry of Culture.

December 30, 2021

On December 27th, Brigadier General of the Reserve Humberto Francis Pardo passed away in Havana at the age of 76, who for three decades was chief of the Personal Security Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior, with an outstanding service record in protecting the physical integrity of the main Cuban leaders.

December 29, 2021

The play "Huevos rotos" is the new project that will occupy actors Susana Pérez and Albertico Pujol at the beginning of 2022.

December 29, 2021

The proclamation this Tuesday of Alberto Lescay Merencio as the recipient of the 2021 National Prize for Plastic Arts honored a creator fully committed to the development and destiny of contemporary Cuban culture, traits that are revealed at the highest level both in his sculptural work and in painting.

December 27, 2021

In this sixth induction, the Electoral Group chose outfielder Antonio "Haitiano" González as the player from before 1961, while from the period after 1962 the selection fell to pitcher Rogelio García and also outfielder Armando Capiró.

December 27, 2021

The emblematic Cuban orchestra Los Van Van got thousands of people dancing until the early hours of today at the Grand Timba Festival in the context of the Cali Fair.

December 26, 2021

Two years after the premiere of the fifteenth short film in the "Tales of Nicanor O´Donnell" series, also considered the final episode of this Cuban writer Eduardo del Llano's cinematic creation, the artist has informed his official Facebook profile that he is working on a new production.

December 26, 2021

Frank Fernández is one of the few pianists with an extraordinary ability to erase time and the capacity to be reborn each time he touches a piano, which he demonstrated once again.

December 25, 2021

Cuban Yoanki Mencía shines today among the most outstanding foreign players in Argentine basketball by being a key piece in the lineup of Gimnasia y Esgrima de Comodoro Rivadavia.

December 25, 2021

At Casa de la Música Habana with the press and guests, and in his last presentation of the year, Will Campa revealed the details of a phonogram that has been playing on different media for several months, and which seems essential to conclude this difficult stage in a positive way in the style of Wil Campa and his "Zapato Nuevo".

December 24, 2021

Chronicles of the Pandemic is the title of the new CD by humorist and singer-songwriter Alejandro García, better known as Virulo.

December 24, 2021

The Australian Baseball League (ABL) is one of the least known among Cubans among the professional circuits in countries with baseball tradition.

December 23, 2021

They say he measured more than six feet tall, with brown and languid eyes, clean and pale skin.

December 23, 2021

Cuban Jasiel Rivero and his club Valencia Basket, from Spain, will take to the court today in search of their fifth victory in the Eurocup basketball tournament, a competition that in terms of quality is only second to the Euroleague on the Old Continent.

December 22, 2021

The stellar Cuban wrestler Mijaín López, four-time Olympic champion, won today the award for Best Male Athlete in the 57th edition of the traditional Prensa Latina Sports Poll.

December 22, 2021

Carlos Ángel Valdés is the young Cuban singer who managed to position himself as a finalist on La Voz España.

December 21, 2021

Tú may perhaps be the shortest title I've seen for a soap opera, however, the production process was as long and complex as perhaps no other has been, since it happened during these hard years of pandemic.

December 21, 2021

For the second year, the Iberoamerican Day of Dance celebrates the imperishable legacy of the teacher, choreographer and prima ballerina assoluta of Cuba, Alicia Alonso, who would be celebrating her 101st birthday today.

December 20, 2021

Actress, singer, presenter and journalist Mariana Ramírez-Corría, who developed an important career in Cuban television, died in Havana this Saturday at the age of 85.

December 20, 2021

"Síntesis is my universe and Ele is its center.

December 19, 2021

Cuban trumpeter José Miguel Crego, "el Greco", one of the most prominent instrumentalists in Cuban music, died in the early morning hours of this Saturday, December 18, as a result of respiratory failure, reported the Cuban Institute of Music (ICM).

December 19, 2021

Cuban painter Douglas Pérez inaugurated an exhibition last Thursday, December 16th, as part of the second curatorial experience of the 14th edition of the Havana Biennial, with a work that draws on 1950s graphics to pay tribute to the Havana neighborhood Vedado and its evolution into the future.

December 18, 2021

One of the most prominent symbols of Cuban music, Vicente Feliú, passed away this Friday, December 17, while he was beginning to sing at the Museum of Music in Havana, where it was to be his first complete concert after the pandemic.

December 18, 2021

Since 1995 the Hermanos Saiz Association (AHS) has awarded prizes and scholarships to recognize the most outstanding exponents of young Cuban art in various artistic manifestations.

December 17, 2021

Gilberto 'Zurdo' Ramírez (42-0, 28 KO) was a super middleweight champion, but when the division became too small for him, he didn't hesitate to move up to light heavyweight.

December 17, 2021

The great Cuban actor and 2012 National Theater Prize recipient passed away in La Habana on December 16, 2021.

December 16, 2021

Mijaín López, Omara Durand and Idalys Ortiz lead the best exponents of Cuban sports in the year that is concluding, according to the report released this Wednesday as a result of the traditional vote organized by Inder and the specialized press.

December 16, 2021

Cuban Miguel Ángel López was named the Most Valuable Player of the International Volleyball Federation's Volleyball Club World Championship, which concluded last Saturday with his team Sada Cruzeiro, from Brazil, winning 3-0 over defending champion Lube Civitanova of Italy.

December 15, 2021

The guild of intellectuals and poets in Cuba mourns the physical passing of poet and writer Georgina Herrera, one of the most genuine voices in twentieth-century lyric poetry, who died this Monday at the age of 85.