August 17, 2020
Cuban reggaeton artist Yomil Hidalgo Puentes shared some images on his social media of the first music video he will film without the presence of his artistic partner and friend Daniel Muñoz, better known as El Dany.
Source: ADN Cuba
August 17, 2020
The president of the Instituto Latino de la Música (ILM), Daniel Martín, shared on social networks an advance of a tribute project to Cuba's prima ballerina assoluta, Alicia Alonso.
Source: Prensa Latina
August 16, 2020
'I conceived this work during Alicia Alonso's career as a Cuban dancer and choreographer, in the performances of Giselle, Carmen and other great works of the classical and romantic repertoire.
Source: Bohemia
August 16, 2020
Cuban Yordan Álvarez hit a three-run home run in his first at-bat of the season after recovering from COVID-19, helping the Houston Astros rout the Seattle Mariners 11-1.
Source: OnCuba News
August 15, 2020
The great jazz musician Paquito D'Rivera, a true cultural legend of the Cuban diaspora and exile, will inaugurate the return of the Summer Concerts on the banks of the Hudson River next Wednesday at 7 pm, in the city of Weehawken, New Jersey.
Source: ADN Cuba
August 15, 2020
Pedro García Espinosa, founder of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry, ICAIC, died in Havana yesterday, August 14.
Source: Cubadebate
August 14, 2020
By Miguel Barnet I could have overlooked any other date, but not this one.
Source: Granma
August 14, 2020
Cuban football suffers another heavy blow, on the morning of August 10, 2020, Juan Antonio Lotina Rodríguez passed away at his home in Miami, the son of Juan Antonio Lotina Matín (1936-2006), one of the men who did the most for soccer on the island.
Source: El Nuevo Herald
August 13, 2020
The ceremony for the presentation of the Baton Award, the equivalent of the Grammy for classical and concert music, which was to be held at Teatro Martí on November 11th, is being postponed to April 24th, 2021, due to the current COVID-19 situation.
Source: Prensa Latina
August 13, 2020
Technology will make it possible for two queens of Latin music, the late Cuban salsa singer Celia Cruz and Puerto Rican reggaeton artist Ivy Queen, to unite their voices in a virtual duet that will be the centerpiece of the interactive festival Calle Ocho Live.
Source: Vanguardia
August 12, 2020
One of the most successful exponents of the Latin urban genre is the Cuban duo Gente de Zona.
Source: Cuballama
August 12, 2020
Cuban Ariel Martínez was placed on the injured list of his Chunichi Dragones team after suffering a sprain in his left hand that will keep him out of Japan's Professional Baseball League.
Source: Bohemia
August 11, 2020
The Camerata Romeu, a women's orchestra directed by Maestro Zenaida Romeu, appears on the list of recordings competing this year for the Latin Grammy, for the contemporary classical work Al Partir, included in the album Renacimiento, by composer, producer, and guitarist Yalil Guerra, also included among the selections vying for the position of Best Classical Music Album.
Source: Tribuna de La Habana
August 11, 2020
The XXXIV edition of the Il Cinema Ritrovato (Rediscovered Cinema) Festival in Bologna 2020 will exhibit three restored films by Cuban director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, confirmed the island's embassy in Italy.
Source: Prensa Latina
August 10, 2020
The prestigious Cuban trovador Silvio Rodríguez recently wrote the following on his blog Segunda Cita: "I just read on Cubanos famosos (a website that, by the way, I didn't know), that today two very beloved poetesses were also born: Nancy Morejon and Exilia Saldaña, in addition to the bolero singer José Tejedor and the athlete Alberto Salazar.
Source: Segundacita blog oficial de Silvio Rodríguez
August 10, 2020
Forward Joel Apeztaguía became the first Cuban footballer to play in the Champions League, when he lined up with Tre Fiore, from San Marino, in the 0-2 defeat against Linfield, from Northern Ireland.
Source: Cuba.cu
August 9, 2020
Cuban boxer Osvary David Morrell claimed the crown of the World Boxing Association (WBA) in the 168-pound category by defeating his rival last Saturday night, Guyanese Lennox Allen, who had an undefeated professional record.
Source: Periodico Cubano
August 9, 2020
On celebrating last August 6th the centenary of musicologist María Teresa Linares, the poet and essayist Virgilio López Lemus has written: María Teresa Linares (Havana, August 14, 1920) has as her second surname that of Sabio (but with a slight variation: Savio).
Source: Granma
August 8, 2020
Cuban Javier Jústiz renewed his contract today with the club Casademont Zaragoza for three more seasons and maintains his stay in the top competition of Spanish basketball.
Source: Bohemia
August 8, 2020
With the campaign #MuchoMachetePorDarTodavía, the fifty years since the first publication of the emblematic Cuban character Elpidio Valdés in Pionero magazine will be celebrated on August 14.
Source: Radio Baraguá
August 7, 2020
The only current Cuban world record holder in athletics is the protagonist of the fifteenth week of the Deporte entuMovil contest.
Source: Trabajadores
August 7, 2020
Cuban-Mexican actress Malillany Marín, after 25 years of artistic career mainly in Mexico, has been selected to act in a series for Netflix, playing the famous designer Carolina Herrera.
Source: DCubanos
August 6, 2020
Cuban-American rapper and producer Armando Christian Pérez, better known as Pitbull, is cooking up a special tribute to El Dany together with popular DJ IamChino.
Source: Cibercuba
August 6, 2020
The boy Dubiel Pupo Espinosa was buried in his native city Felton, Mayarí, in a ceremony in which his family members were accompanied by the entire town along with the players with whom he made up the last baseball team that represented this province in the National Championship of the 9-10 year-old category.
Source: Granma, Jit
August 5, 2020
Spain's emeritus king Juan Carlos, who announced his intention to leave the country last Monday due to the numerous judicial scandals involving him for alleged corruption, is currently in the Dominican Republic with the Fanjul brothers, of Cuban origin, according to Spanish press reports.
Source: La vanguardia
August 5, 2020
Journalist Lázaro Barredo Medina, who directed the newspaper Granma between November 2005 and October 2013, founder of the Mesa Redonda and regular contributor to Cubadebate, died from a cardiovascular condition.
Source: Bohemia
August 4, 2020
The warm transparencies achieved by Carlos Enríquez, the artist who knew how to macerate the secret of tropical light and awakened, for his vital expression, the Cuban landscape, —distancing himself from the commercialized image of the royal palm—; his portraits, of very personal character; his sensitivity as an artist and as a man of his time (Zulueta, Las Villas, 1900-Havana, 1957), poured into the search for the national, and accompanied by the anguishes and difficulties that grew in those times, which left their mark on him.
Source: Cubarte
August 4, 2020
Cuban baseball player Yoenis Céspedes decided not to continue the rest of the 2020 season with the New York Mets.
Source: Diario de Cuba
August 3, 2020
Roberto Fabelo has just received 399 thousand dollars achieved at a Christie's auction held this week, in which he managed to sell his painting 'Viaje al jardín fantástico' for double the estimated amount, becoming a record for a work by this artist.
Source: Cubacute
August 3, 2020
Cuban Marlon Yant Herrera apparently is destined for great achievements, as shown today by the Italian press, with multiple praises for his innate talent for playing volleyball.
Source: Bohemia
August 2, 2020
Cuban casting director Libia Batista is the first professional in her specialty in Latin America and the Caribbean to have been selected to be part of the jury for the Oscar Awards.
Source: OnCuba News
August 2, 2020
Artists from various disciplines remember today one of the most respected creators of popular dance music on this continent, Cuban bassist and composer Juan Formell, who would have turned 78 years old.
Source: Prensa Latina
August 1, 2020
Cuban journalist Ismael Cala, known for his program "Cala" for the CNN network, decided to return to the small screen after almost four years of absence due, in part, to the effects of the pandemic on his ventures, reported news agency Efe.
Source: Periódico Cubano
August 1, 2020
The billionaire and founder of the Amazon company, Jeff Bezos, told the United States Congress the life story of his Cuban father.
Source: Dime Cuba
July 31, 2020
The Historian of the City of Havana has died, Cuba mourns.
Source: Eusebio Leal.cu, Granma, Ecured
July 31, 2020
The film Mambo Man, by Cuban director Edesio Alejandro and British-Iranian Mo Fini, today adds a new award by being selected as the Best Feature Film of the season by the Best Global Shorts festival.
Source: TV Santiago
July 30, 2020
In an interview on the "Cala" program on the American network MegaTV, singer Aymée Nuviola revealed that she has contracted COVID-19.
Source: El Nuevo Día.com
July 30, 2020
Just days after the unexpected death of Cuban reggaeton artist Daniel Muñoz (El Dany), urban interpreter José Manuel Carvajal, better known as El Taiger, has wanted to honor the memory of the artist with the premiere of the last song they recorded together.
Source: Dime Cuba
July 29, 2020
The world record holder in high jump, Cuban Javier Sotomayor, expressed feeling happy and proud to maintain the world supremacy of 2.
Source: TyC Sports
July 29, 2020
Ramón Labañino participated in a virtual presentation here of his book Man of Silence, diary of a prison.
Source: Prensa Latina
July 28, 2020
The renowned Cuban dancer, choreographer, and director Carlos Acosta has been named a member of the Board of Governors of The Royal Ballet School, another award in his already long list of international recognitions and achievements.
Source: CubitaNow
July 28, 2020
The Cuban Institute of Music reported that in the early morning hours of Tuesday, July 28, the musician and professor Roberto Chorens Dotres died in Havana as a result of a heart attack.
Source: Radio Habana Cuba, Cubadebate
July 27, 2020
Cuban Liván Moinelo kept his pitches indecipherable today after coming out of the bullpen and contributed to the success of the SoftBank Hawks with a 6-1 victory over the Nippon Ham Fighters, in the 2020 season of Japanese professional baseball.
Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias
July 27, 2020
The title of Distinguished Son of the city of Santiago de Cuba was awarded to General of the Army Raúl Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), for his outstanding trajectory as a revolutionary, military strategist and statesman.
Source: Radio Baraguá
July 26, 2020
Sigfredo Ariel passed away this Sunday in Havana, a victim of cancer.
Source: CMHW
July 26, 2020
Cuban striker Marcel Hernández, who plays with the Cartaginés club, was selected as the best foreign player of the 2020 Clausura Tournament in the first division of Costa Rican football.
Source: Prensa Latina
July 25, 2020
Cuban troubadour Silvio Rodríguez will join several Argentine musicians and other Latin Americans on the upcoming 26th in a virtual festival organized by the Argentine-Cuban Fraternity Space (EFAC).
Source: Cubainformación
July 25, 2020
Cuban doctor José Antonio Soto (Tony) passed away on Thursday, July 23 in Miami at age 56, a victim of COVID-19.
Source: Cibercuba
July 24, 2020
Her unmistakable voice, her eternal smile, and the age that is the best-kept secret about perpetual youth are part of the characteristics that make unique the Cachita from Vivir del Cuento or the unforgettable voice behind characters like María Silvia and Eutelia, from Elpidio Valdés.
Source: Cubacute
July 24, 2020
Donald Trump's electoral campaign released on Wednesday, July 22, a television advertisement in Spanish directed at Cubans in South Florida with references to exile, the food company Goya, and Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Source: El Nuevo Herald, OncubaNews
