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January 31, 2022

The book Germán Pinelli, Remembering Him is Flattering, by researcher, broadcaster, entertainer and program and entertainment director Ángel Manuel Pérez Álvarez, was presented on January 28 in the Che Guevara Hall, of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT), in the capital.

January 30, 2022

This Sunday, January 30 at 5:20 in the morning, Cuban singer Suylén Milanés Bennet, daughter of renowned singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés, passed away from a stroke.

January 30, 2022

Cuban broadcaster Frank Abel Gómez Bernal, who worked for decades in Cuban radio and television, has requested political asylum in the United States.

January 29, 2022

Cuban trumpeter Elpidio Chapotín passed away on Wednesday, January 26 in Havana at the age of 70.

January 29, 2022

Cuban singer and songwriter Ellys León, who recently flooded the streets of Madrid with images of her new single "Tú y yo", said in an interview that "it's the first time" she has "a team like this".

January 28, 2022

Singer and music producer Suylén Milanés Benett, daughter of legendary Cuban singer Pablo Milanés, is hospitalized in serious condition at the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery in Havana after suffering a stroke.

January 28, 2022

Cuban Ana de Armas is back in the news in the film world, but this time not for appearing in a new movie, but for being cut from Yesterday, a 2019 musical from which scenes featuring the actress were removed, despite her appearing in the trailer.

January 27, 2022

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January 27, 2022

Alfredo Despaigne, player from Granma, signed a new contract this Wednesday with the Softbank Hawks in the Japanese Professional Baseball League.

January 26, 2022

The playwright Yunior García, who is the creator of the Archipiélago platform, which called for the failed Civic March for Change on November 15th in Cuba, cited as an example the exorbitant sanctions imposed on the island against those detained in the protests of July 11th.

January 26, 2022

Chess player Leinier Domínguez will have a very complicated qualifying group in the Berlin Grand Prix, which will take place from February 4 to 17 and will launch a series of three events that will ultimately award two spots for the Candidates Tournament for the world crown held by Norwegian Magnus Carlsen.

January 25, 2022

Cuban comedian Andy Vázquez invited his followers not to miss his new series "Zapateando el Yuma", in which he will work as a traveler.

January 25, 2022

Luis Emilio Ríos is a man who has already occupied a place of honor in Cuban music.

January 24, 2022

From the tranquility of the current pandemic was born the recording "Los herederos", a tribute to one of the musicians who has most contributed to the development of music in Cuba, Chucho Valdés, and to the group created by him, Irakere.

January 24, 2022

The striker for the Cuban national team, Onel Hernández, scored his first goal with Birmingham FC of the Football League Championship, the second division of English football.

January 23, 2022

The renowned actress Corina Mestre has been recognized with the National Theater Prize 2022, reported the National Council of the Performing Arts (CNAE).

January 23, 2022

Ramón Rives Amador, popularly known as Mongo Rives, died on Friday, January 21st at the age of 92.

January 21, 2022

The legendary volleyball player Mireya Luis Hernández, who was a vital part of Cuba's teams that won gold medals in three consecutive Olympic Games, has received privileged Dominican nationality in recognition of her sporting merits acknowledged worldwide and at the continental level.

January 21, 2022

The Chaplin cinema hosted the premiere of the documentary "That's Life Octavio", an audiovisual that under the direction of actor Patricio Wood approaches the professional life of the renowned Cuban filmmaker.

January 20, 2022

Cuban singer and songwriter Liuba María Hevia is preparing her next acoustic concert for today, Para volverte a ver, before the audience at the Pequeño Teatro Gran Vía in Spain's capital.

January 20, 2022

Cuban musician and comedian Alejandro García Villalón, better known as Virulo, returns to Mexico with the show Chronicles of the Pandemic, which will offer two unique performances on January 21 and 22 at the Teatro Bar El Vicio.

January 19, 2022

Cuban actress Beatriz Valdés, better known on the island as "La Bella del Alhambra", for the film of the same name that she starred in in 1989, will be the surprising protagonist of the upcoming music video by Cuban singer Leoni Torres.

January 19, 2022

With performances by Cuban musician Ignacio "Nachito" Herrera, resident in the United States, and maestro Bobby Carcasés, the 37th edition of the International Jazz Plaza Festival was officially inaugurated in this capital.

January 18, 2022

It is titled Confluencias de pianos and from the promotional poster itself the diversity jumps out at first sight.

January 18, 2022

Renowned former Cuban baseball player Lázaro Ramón Gonzalo Naranjo, better known as Choly Naranjo, died on January 13th in the city of Miami, Florida, at the age of 88.

January 17, 2022

Percussionist Oliver Valdés will present to the public his first solo recording production, titled Nasobuco, at a concert sponsored by the Centro Nacional de Música Popular, during the upcoming edition of the Festival Internacional Jazz Plaza.

January 17, 2022

The prominent Cuban researcher, Gilberto Silva Taboada, passed away on January 16, 2022.

January 16, 2022

Cuban-Spanish artist Chanel Terrero is fighting for a spot to represent Spain at Eurovision 2022, at Benidorm Fest, where she will showcase her talent on the Alicante stage.

January 16, 2022

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January 15, 2022

Cuban actor William Levy is trending these days since the new version of "Café con Aroma de Mujer" premiered on Netflix.

January 15, 2022

The Cuban Volleyball Federation expressed its regret this Thursday for the death of former player Raúl Vilches, a victim of cancer.

January 14, 2022

The highest honors of the Iberorquestas Juveniles Program in its Young Group Competition and Young Performer of the Year Award 2021 were achieved by Cuban artists.

January 14, 2022

Roberto "Bobby" Batista Fernández, one of Fulgencio Batista's nine children, died on January 12, 2022 in Madrid at the age of 74.

January 13, 2022

We would not be rash in pointing out that 2022 has started off well for Cuban actress María Isabel Díaz.

January 13, 2022

The text "Alicia and the Wonders of Ballet.

January 12, 2022

Four of the main figures in Cuban athletics, including Olympic silver medalist in long jump, Juan Miguel Echevarría, will represent Spanish club CA Playas de Castellón in the upcoming athletic season, according to an announcement from that institution.

January 12, 2022

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January 11, 2022

Cuban Marlies Mejías announced that she will race in the Challenger Escambray Mountain Bike scheduled for the 21st to 23rd of this month in the impressive setting of those mountain ranges in the province of Sancti Spíritus.

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.