Raquel Mayedo celebrates birthday

September 19, 2020

Those who know her say she has the formula for eternal youth because she doesn't look her age, but perhaps one of the ingredients in this recipe is the affection that thousands of Cubans feel for her. It doesn't matter if she's 62 or 20, what's worthwhile is continuing to have her on screen every week giving us her smile.

Almost no one knows that she gave up on a promise in ballet, the first thing that interested her and that she came to study, graduating in Classical Ballet no less than with the Waltz of the Flowers from Coppelia. However, a few years ago she confessed that she gave it up because she didn't want to be part of the corps de ballet, but rather to be the protagonist, and she acknowledged that she didn't have the strength or the conditions to successfully move through all the necessary categories to achieve it.

Perhaps that's why she decided to move forward and the Instituto Superior de Arte opened its doors to her, from where she ended up graduating in the specialty of Theatrology. Fresh out of ISA, she began working in the Theater and Dance Department of the Ministry of Culture, where she managed the Dissemination and Public Relations department. In that position, from an office, she discovered that she had a certain power with the gift of words.

While there, a television director approached her needing information for the performing arts section planned as a novelty in a magazine aimed at adolescents, who proposed that she take charge of the section and she liked the idea, even though she had no training as a broadcaster.

Finally, the project didn't come to fruition and led to the creation of Joven Joven, a well-made program, but similar to many others. She agreed to be part of the team, although she was left with the desire of having carried out that section.

During those years she also had the difficult responsibility of being the press chief of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, until another program came along that would mark a milestone in her career: Contacto, which ended up making her known throughout Cuba.

When the program went off the air, she had to reorient herself professionally within the Instituto Cubano de Radio y Televisión. She decided, then, to return to public relations, which had always given her much satisfaction.

Finally, the doors of the program De tarde en casa opened for her, with which she has again resonated with viewers, who admire and respect her work for her colloquial style and the diversity of topics she addresses each week.

She has been fortunate to make at each stage a television program designed for an audience contemporary with her. In Joven Joven she was a young woman, in Contacto a young adult, and now she is in Contra el Olvido and De Tarde en Casa, in which she addresses people 35 years old and older, that is, those who have more or less the same life experiences as the host.