September 1, 2018
Cuban discus thrower Yaimé Pérez pulled off the day's biggest upset 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 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
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 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 runner-up 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 Wednesday, August 29, the notable Cuban poet 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 chosen venue 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 Virgin of Charity of El Cobre on September 2nd in Santiago de Cuba.
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August 27, 2018
Maria Elvira Salazar says that 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 24, when the birth of this figure who became legendary in Cuban musical history is celebrated with cheers and songs, not only for succeeding as a black man, poor and descendant of enslaved people, but for his impeccable voice and his particular way of making and feeling music.
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August 25, 2018
Cuban singer based in Mexico, Lenny de la Rosa, has revealed that he wishes to fill 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.
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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 distinguished Cuban musician Roberto Fonseca, along with his group Temperamento, will offer a concert titled An own style of doing jazz, this Saturday the 25th, at 8:30 p.
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August 22, 2018
Recently premiered at Starlite the show, Celia Cruz, The 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
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 an article recently published in the newspaper Granma, Dr.
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August 20, 2018
Cuban singer Liuba María Hevia presented the documentary about Teresa Fernández on the Mesa Redonda program of Cuban Television, a beloved singer-songwriter in her country, as generations of children grew up with 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 10th, Haydée Milanés performed in concert at the Habana Café of the Meliá Cohíba hotel, with the special participation of 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 staff who participated in the filming of the film El hombre de Maisinicú took place 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 the truths of his heart or about the sufferings of his homeland?" There are no words more filled with tenderness and affection about Rafael María de Mendive 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 throughout his artistic career re-emerged in the municipality of Morón in Avila.
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August 15, 2018
The title of this commentary may seem vulgar, 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 the age of 63 as a result of kidney failure.
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August 13, 2018
Cuban Olympic champion Idalys Ortiz won the gold medal at the Budapest Grand Prix of Judo, 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 formed on its own; the author did not set out to write a book of poems.
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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 approach Silvio Rodríguez —a man of thought, more than a troubadour— without pretensions of discovering hidden niches in him, because he has been one of the great transparent figures of Cuban culture.
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August 9, 2018
Cuban music stars Adalberto Álvarez, Edesio Alejandro and César "Pupy" Pedroso will receive the recognition of Cultural Ambassadors of the Latin Music Institute (ILM), for their long career 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 draws inspiration from both Carmen Jones by Oscar Hammerstein and Bizet's celebrated French opera.
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August 8, 2018
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 an identifying mark in the local sphere: Luis Martínez Pedro.
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August 8, 2018
When emotions seem to rest in a remote corner of routine, a documentary awakens us to yesterdays, almost faded, and then 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 As Fierce as They Paint Him.
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August 6, 2018
Kelvis Ochoa returns to make a big splash following a 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 Prize for their notable contributions and dedication to the medium.
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August 5, 2018
Cuban producers and artists such as Lucrecia and Mayito Rivera presented the "Mambo Madness!" movement in Miami, with which, starting from an album and an orchestra of 23 musicians, they aim to spread the "madness" of this rhythm once again.
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August 4, 2018
Works by choreographers from the United Kingdom, Spain and Cuba will be part of the Acosta Danza company's Summer season, 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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August 3, 2018
Both will perform in concert, together with Cuban Omara Portuondo, next Saturday, August 11, at 8:30 p.
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August 2, 2018
What joy it has brought me to wake up with the news of the 2018 National Radio Award for maestro Juan Piñera among so many other radio professionals! The most humble and most ingenious person I have known in a long time.
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