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Ibrahim Ferrer: Bolero singer and sonero

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 05/08/202518/09/2025

By Grisel Chirino Martínez for Radio Cadena Habana Music marked Ibrahim Ferrer from the very…

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  • Cuban Dance

Ramona de Saá, Great Master of Cuban Ballet

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 23/05/2024

Ballet maître Ramona de Saá Bello, one of the most important figures in Cuban dance,…

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  • Cuban Music

EGREM: 60 years of making people ‘Feel the Music’

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 12/04/202305/05/2023

This April Cuba’s national recording studio EGREM is celebrating its 60th year. Founded in 1964…

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  • Icons of Cuban Culture

Pablo Milanés – eternally Pablito

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 02/01/202319/01/2023

In recent months Cuba has been celebrating 50 years since the first festival of the…

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  • Icons of Cuban Culture

Rogelio Martínez Furé, prominent Cuban folklorist, ethnologist and researcher

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 12/10/202212/10/2022

The outstanding Cuban folklorist, ethnologist and researcher and national prize for Literature Rogelio Martínez Furé died…

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Cuban Coffee

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 01/10/202201/06/2023

The coffee plant was introduced into Cuba in 1748, but farming did not develop into…

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  • Cuban Music

Trova – The Cuban sound of voice and guitar

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 15/08/202207/07/2023

Trova – the intimate Cuban sound of guitars and vocal harmonies singing poetic lyrics –…

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  • Cuban Music

What is Son Cubano?

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 21/07/202223/07/2025

Son is a vocal and instrumental dance genre, which constitutes one of the basic forms…

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  • Cuban Film

Sara Gómez: Cuba’s first female film director

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 07/03/202208/03/2022

Sara Gómez, was the first Cuban female film director of the Cuban cinema Institute (ICAIC)…

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  • Cuban Literature

Georgina Herrera, Cuban poet, la Eterna Cimarrona

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 14/12/2021

Georgina Herrera was a Cuban poet and radio scriptwriter, feminist and anti-racist. In Cuba she…

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  • Icons of Cuban Culture

Cuba’s National Day of Culture 20 October

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 19/10/202120/10/2025

On 20 October each year Cuba celebrates their National Day of Culture ‘Jornada de la…

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  • Cuban Music

Cuban Legend Adalberto Álvarez Dies at 72

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 04/09/202118/10/2021

Celebrated Cuban composer, arranger, pianist, and conductor, Adalberto Álvarez died on September 1, 2021 of…

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  • Cuban Music

The Bolero is declared National Cultural Heritage in Cuba

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/08/202126/06/2022

The bolero, a vocal, instrumental and danceable genre of the song movement in Cuba, has…

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  • Cuban Film

Cuban Olympic legend Juantorena’s ‘Running for the Revolution’ released

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/07/202102/10/2022

‘Running for the Revolution’ is a new documentary film that chronicles the life of Olympic athletics…

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  • Cuban Art

Korda in the eye of the hurricane: the photographer of the Cuban revolution

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/05/202127/05/2021

Cuban curator Virginia Alberdi writes about Cuban photographer Korda on the 20th anniversary of his…

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