Interviews Archives - Page 122 of 147

Cuba’s “LezKno” Photographing Dreams

Yasser Lezcano is a point of reference in the visual arts in Cuba. He told HT: “I never saw art as a way of life, nor did I dream that I would make a living from it.”

Heidi Igualada, A Female Cuban Troubadour

“It’s good that there are more women creating Cuban trova songs,” said Heidi Igualada in her interview with Havana Times.

Democracy Now! Interviews Cuba’s Mariela Castro

Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuban President Raúl Castro, and a champion of LGBTQ rights, gave an exclusive interview to Democracy Now, which authorized HT to republish the exchange.

Cuban Storyteller Mayra Navarro

“I was a student of music at the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory, in my fourth year studying piano, with some great teachers, and one day I came home and told my family to sell the piano because I wasn’t going to continue studying music, I wanted to be a great storyteller,” Mayra Navarro told HT.

Seeking Relief: An Interview with an Amazing Person

Today I am going to interview an amazing person, Nadia Lozada Jerez, writer and storyteller, who works in the Provincial Book Center of Santiago de Cuba, but is known among her friends and acquaintances as a scholar and practitioner of various mystical and religious currents.

Cuban Soprano Milagro de los Angeles

The soprano Milagro de los Angeles, one of opera’s leading figures in Cuba today, recorded her first album with a rich selection of music. As she pointed out, though, “Incredibly, my debut in a leading role wasn’t in my country.”

Another Cuban in the Cosmos

I met Adrian Replanski after waking him up one night in 2007. Late that night I was devouring “Fabrica de humo” (“Smoke Factory,” his first feature film) and a few opportune buttered bread rolls sold at the cafe located a few step from the Linea Avenue tunnel.

Protesting in Cuba

My relationship with Cuba is a story of politics and love intertwined. I had a communist boyfriend with whom I argued a lot about the need to reform society, in France as elsewhere. He always ended the discussion by pointing to Cuba as an example of the new society we needed.

A Cuban Who Made It to the Paris Olympia

“I’m a guajira (a farm girl), and I’ll always be one,” said Cuban singer Leyanis Lopez in her interview with HT. “My first record was in 1999, “Como la mariposa” (Like a butterfly), on the foreign label Lusafrica, along with my musicians in Guantanamo.”

Setting the Record Straight

“My little girl was called Lesdiany Rodriguez Vidal; she was twelve years old and was in the 8th grade in the “People’s Republic of Angola” high school in the East Havana housing projects of Alamar,” said Anabel Vidal Fernandez who wants justice.