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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.

Source: Cubarte

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.

Source: Radio Habana Cuba

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.

Source: Cartelera de Teatro

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.

Source: ADN Cuba

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.

Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias, ACN

January 18, 2022

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

Source: CubaSi

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.

Source: Asere

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.

Source: Cubarte

January 17, 2022

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

Source: Granma, Cubadebate

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.

Source: Cubanoticias 360

January 16, 2022

Manuel de la C.

Source: Cubadebate

January 15, 2022

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

Source: Cubanoticias360

January 15, 2022

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

Source: Cubadebate

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.

Source: Radio Enciclopedia

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.

Source: OnCubaNews

January 13, 2022

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

Source: Cubanoticias360

January 13, 2022

The text "Alicia and the Wonders of Ballet.

Source: CubaSi, Radio Reloj

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.

Source: OnCubaNews

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.

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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.

Source: Cubadebate

January 10, 2022

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

Source: Granma

January 10, 2022

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

Source: TV Cubana

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.

Source: ADN Cuba

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.

Source: Cubadebate

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.

Source: Infomed

January 7, 2022

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

Source: Cubadebate

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.

Source: Cibercuba

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.

Source: CubaSi

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.

Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias, ACN

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.

Source: Cubadebate, Cibercuba

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.

Source: CMHW, Cubadebate

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.

Source: Cubahora

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.

Source: Cibercuba

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.

Source: Cubadebate

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.

Source: Asere

January 2, 2022

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

Source: ADN Cuba

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.

Source: Granma

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.

Source: OncubaNews

December 31, 2021

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

Source: Juventud Rebelde

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.

Source: Swing Completo

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.

Source: Granma

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.

Source: Cubadebate

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.

Source: Cubanoticias360

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.

Source: Granma

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.

Source: Prensa Latina

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.

Source: CubaSi

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.

Source: Cubanoticias360

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.

Source: Prensa Latina

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.

Source: Cubadebate