We interviewed the Cuban singer Evelyn Garcia Marquez, who comes from a family of recognized musicians, among them her mother, the outstanding songstress Beatriz Marquez. “I didn’t think I’d go far in classical piano, that’s why I decided to sing,” she told HT.
Read MoreIn Cuba, there have been abundant explanations regarding how malicious agents of the empire have provoked youth “revolutions” in peaceful countries, where dissenters using Facebook and Twitter have managed overnight to assemble huge “critical masses” of human beings in the principal squares and streets of their respective capitals.
Read MoreWe interview the young musician Janio Abreu, a clarinetist and the leader of the Cuban jazz group “Aire de Concierto.” As Janio noted, “Let’s hope that tomorrow they’ll keep us in mind in those venues where they truly should be featuring the art form that we consider ourselves to be championing.”
Read MoreOne of the solutions found by the Cuban government to confront the “Special Period” economic crisis at the beginning of the 1990s was to open the country to international tourism. That happened during my adolescence and up until that moment I’d never even met a Russian.
Read MoreMariela Castro, daughter of President Raul Castro, has achieved important advances in making homophobia socially visible, authorizing free sex-change operations and bringing the LGBT community out of its marginalization by organizing its members in the defense of their rights.
Read MoreYenisey now has a two-year-old boy and has also stopped working for the government. She showed me the table where she displays crafts that she makes and sells, now as a self-employed worker.
Read More“Many people sometimes don’t have the courage to face change; but believe me, after that change starts you may begin from zero but it’s worth thousands,” said LIndiana Murphy, vocalist of the Cuban band Mantra in an interview with HT.
Read MoreExtraño Corazon began playing pop-rock, heavy metal, progressive rock & the blues, which is to say we weren’t a group defined by any particular musical style. But when we started getting some of our country-sounding songs played on the radio, the public began identifying us as that Cuban pop-rock-country band.
Read MoreWhen I came off the stage the rappers told me: “You really did that ‘Spoken Word’ great.” I still didn’t know what it was. When investigating into it I realized that it was about doing your poetry or that of someone else’s on a rhythmic base of sound, and live.
Read MoreOjam Linchff is a Nicaraguan countertenor who completed his formal training in Cuba, where he has also performed in numerous concerts. He told HT: “For some people the countertenor voice belongs to women, but they speak from their ignorance and limited aesthetic sensitivity.”
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