Tag: Cuban culture

Cuban artist Jessica Angel was in charge of photographing the dance with an almost dreamlike interpretation, where the fixed photo ...

Poet, professor and essayist Roberto Fernández Retamar (1930) died this Saturday in Havana at the age of 89. A statement ...

In Eduardo del Llano’s ideal Cuba, Nicanor O'Donell should be president. At least "I’d vote for him," he says. For ...

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel criticized this Sunday in his closing address at the 9th Congress of the Union of Writers ...

Eleven years after the first demands in this regard, the work of independent filmmakers and audiovisual directors, which until now ...

Haydée Milanés is one of the most versatile musicians of her generation. She is sitting in her living room at ...

In 1946 a Santiago-born graduate of Business Administration at Yale University called Goar Mestre (1912-1994) laid the first stone of ...

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel affirmed he doesn’t discriminate against any musical genre, and that what culture officials should be concerned ...

Habana Abierta was an explosion in the Cuban underground scene. The members of this creative group recorded, after settling in ...

The documentary "The World or Nothing," which narrates the life in Barcelona of two Cuban twins who want to fulfill ...

Juan Carlos Roque García (1960), who is an absolute man of radio and whose voice internationalized Radio Netherland, that oasis ...

The Havana World Music Festival has brought to Havana bands and artists with a rigorous proposal far removed from the ...

Tomas Piard was a filmmaker who made no concessions. He got behind the cameras as if it were a method ...

In 1997, at the Capri Hotel, in the middle of the Cuban salsa boom, a performance by Los Zafiros was ...

On December 31, we didn’t have water in the building. Only cumbia from the Colombian neighbors’ loudspeakers, cumbias and ballenatos ...

Cima My old friends call me El Manta. They’re friends from when I started with trova, and my buddies from ...

Writer Leonardo Padura, considered Cuba’s author with the greatest international projection, this November 26 was named a member of the ...

Cuban dancer and choreographer Lizt Alfonso has been included on the BBC Women 2018 list of inspiring and influential women ...

A letter written by hand by Celia Cruz, her favorite wigs, the most famous dresses and unpublished photo are just ...

Watermelons, coconuts, squashes, eggplants, mangoes, cucumbers, garlic, eggs, papayas, onions and peppers, among many others…, have been assiduously and successfully ...

Far away from the center of the city of Gibara, in the humble community of El Güirito, live Jorge and ...

A video recently published by filmmaker Ian Padrón shows the hallmarks of his father’s work and several excerpts of his ...