Ivet Letus Luisa graduated from the Amadeo Roldan Conservatory. She is currently cutting her first record “produced by Emilio Vega, and where I had an opportunity to work with excellent musicians like Jorge Reyes, Alfred Thomson and Rolando Luna.”
Read MoreThere are two ways to read this interview with Cuban artist Yoanny Aldaya. The first: read the interview and then look at the photo gallery. The second: look at the photo gallery and then read the interview. We recommend the latter. (16 photos)
Read MoreSpanish dance is now taught and recognized at the university level in Cuba. Among those artists who have mastered this style is the dancer Leslie Ung, one of the privileged performers. She commented, “Dancers in this profession here on the island should work more on our Cuban interpretation of flamenco.”
Read MoreWilliam Hernandez is a Venezuelan percussionist who’s in love with Afro-Cuban music. He and the Muñequitos de Matanzas performed using his creation: “el cajon,” which he also calls the “Obba Drum.”
Read MoreRene Baños is the leader of the renowned Cuban a capella singing group “Sampling.” In an interview for HT he noted, “Something that regularly catches my attention is the ability and willingness of the most diverse audiences to give themselves enthusiastically to music, to share it, to sing it and to dance with us, even when they don’t know the language or aren’t familiar with the musical style.”
Read MoreMarta is Spanish. She has traveled to many countries, but for a long time there were two she yearned to visit but hadn’t, Brazil and Cuba. She traveled to the first one in 2009. Then, this year, her fiftieth, she visited Cuba and was able to compare her expectations with reality.
Read MoreThe French newspaper L’Humanité recently ran an interview with Mariela Castro, director of Cuba’s National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX). Today we bring you a translation courtesy of Marce Cameron and his website Cuba Socialist Renewal.
Read MoreOne of the emblematic groups of Cuban hip hop is the duo “Obsesion,” made up by Alexei Rodríguez (aka: El tipo este) and Magia Lopez, who is also the manager of the Cuban Rap Agency. This is an interview with Magia who talks about the CD “El Disco Negro” and her work at the Agency.
Read MoreCuban filmmaker Eduardo del Llano recently presented his latest movie “Vinci”, but with a subject matter that marks a difference in film production on the island: “I believe in a Cuban film that’s not afraid of touching on universal characters and themes.”
Read MoreThis past November 11, part of the house collapsed where the family of 46-year-old Irina Pino lived. But this is not the typical story of a Cuban house that collapses because the construction is too old and has not been repaired for many years.
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