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Well, he, who not only had a nose for relativity, but also for social injustice, toured Havana\u2019s poor neighborhoods to later pass judgement: \u201cLuxurious clubs next to atrocious poverty that affects mainly people of color.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But I say more: a certain British subject also walked through the same streets of Havana. He wore a Cuban guayabera shirt to avoid being recognized and gorged on mangoes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was that angel, that superior being named Alexander Fleming, who gave penicillin to the human race, who was also enjoying his second honeymoon in Havana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps Pedro Vargas, \u201cThe Tenor of the Americas,\u201d spent as much time on this island as in Mexico, his native land.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, Puerto Rican Daniel Santos, \u201cEl Inquieto Anacobero,\u201d lived in the vicinity of Havana\u2019s Parque Maceo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And Nat King Cole would take a quick trip to the Cuban capital whenever he could.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_234318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-234318\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/4.Sarah-Vaughan-Bebo-Valdes-Nat-King-Cole-en-La-Habana.-1957-1100x606-1-1024x564-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-234318\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/4.Sarah-Vaughan-Bebo-Valdes-Nat-King-Cole-en-La-Habana.-1957-1100x606-1-1024x564-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/4.Sarah-Vaughan-Bebo-Valdes-Nat-King-Cole-en-La-Habana.-1957-1100x606-1-1024x564-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/4.Sarah-Vaughan-Bebo-Valdes-Nat-King-Cole-en-La-Habana.-1957-1100x606-1-1024x564-1-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/4.Sarah-Vaughan-Bebo-Valdes-Nat-King-Cole-en-La-Habana.-1957-1100x606-1-1024x564-1-768x423.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/4.Sarah-Vaughan-Bebo-Valdes-Nat-King-Cole-en-La-Habana.-1957-1100x606-1-1024x564-1-750x413.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-234318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Vaughan, Bebo Vald\u00e9s and Nat King Cole in Tropicana. Year 1957 (Jorge Luis S\u00e1nchez Archive)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was possible to meet Edith Piaf on a corner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I must insist: everyone traveled through Cuba. Yes, famous people, including someone who became famous for a rather unique reason at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, dear readers who follow these lines, I ask you to be patient because I must introduce&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The character\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">George William Jorgensen, the son of a Danish carpenter of the same name, was born in New York in 1926.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But let\u2019s be precise: he came into the world specifically in the Bronx, one of those places that sociologists in their aseptic professional jargon call \u201cmarginal neighborhoods.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Much later, in 1967, writing his autobiography, George would describe himself in that environment as \u201ca fragile, blond, introverted boy who fled from fist fights and rough games.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was able to graduate from high school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And look at how things can be unpredictable: he formed part of the American troops that fought against the Nazi-fascist axis during World War II.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Later, there is always a later, he heard rumors about surgical novelties being tried in the so-called Old World. It is then that he decides to leave for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Copenhagen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Copenhagen<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Denmark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When he returns to home, he is no longer George, but a slim blonde girl wrapped in a showy fur coat.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_234332\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-234332\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMAGEN-2-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-234332\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMAGEN-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-234332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George William Jorgensen \/ Christine.<br \/>Before and after<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His was the most scandalous sex change event of the time. He began by making the front page of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_Daily_News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New York Daily News<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, while in another newspaper the case made the news with the headline: \u201cEx-Soldier Becomes Blonde Beauty!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At that point he was no longer George, but Christine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From then on, he would perform on the stages of U.S. nightclubs, he would record albums and even starred in more than one film.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ok, but what about Cuba?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1953 Christine landed in Havana, but she did not come unguarded. No way! Her godfather is none other than Roderico Neyra, Rodney, or El Mago de la Pista, as he was known in showbiz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When he presented his fiery mulatto women to the public, the Caribbean Sea would twist with tsunamis and all the adjacent lands shook. It was Roderico Neyra who made the Tropicana cabaret what it was and is: a place that compared to its U.S. counterparts has always stood out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And Christine also took over that stage, she danced. Some say that she was formally hired by the company, that she knew a lot about advertising.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_234321\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-234321\" style=\"width: 482px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMAGEN-1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-234321\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMAGEN-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMAGEN-1-1.jpg 482w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMAGEN-1-1-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-234321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorgensen in Havana.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, the eternal pranksters of the Arag\u00f3n Orchestra sang a cha-cha that, alluding to the city where Jorgensen\u2019s great change took place, said: <em>\u201cPa\u2019 su escopeta, yo no voy a Dinamarca, \/ porque te cambian, compay, pa\u2019 la otra marca,<\/em>\u201d which more or less means that just in case not to go to Denmark because you might be changed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jorgensen passed away on May 3, 1989, at the age of 63.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps he would always remember how he had danced wildly in the \u201cparadise under the stars,\u201d in Tropicana.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It should not be forgotten that the capital of Cuba was always a crossroads. Can we forget that they called it the City of the Fleet, the Antemural de Indias, the Key to the New World, Margarita de los Mares? Everyone has passed through here. Did you tell me that Albert Einstein too? Well, he, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3252,"featured_media":234330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[11068,22988,33480],"ppma_author":[34084,15012],"class_list":["post-234317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-celebrities-in-havana","tag-cuban-history","tag-sex-change"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The american soldier who walked through Havana | OnCubaNews English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When the former soldier George William Jorgensen traveled to Havana, he did so as Christine. 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