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1922
Tenor Miguel Ángel Ortiz was born
22 de Agosto de 1922
He was born in Havana in August 29th, 1922 and died in May 31st, 1986. His career began as singer of Cuban songs in radio stations in 1939. He studied with Zenaida Romeu and Carlos Dalmau, and professor Antonioni imparted classes to him, in New York. He sang in zarzuelas and operas. He has performed in theater, TV and cultural centers. He visited several countries spreading the Cuban classical repertoire.
1922
First Radio Broadcasting in Cuba
22 de Agosto de 1922
To the Cuban musician Luis Casas Romero, radio amateuir, or radio ham , goes the merit of having been the first in boradcasting a radio trransmisision in Cuban . This took place in August 22ne, 1922, just before 9:00 P.M., when a small plant built by the Cuban engineer Luis Casas Rodríguez, his son, started to be ”on the air” as a “broadccasting” , and with the identification code 2LC.
Althogh the Casas´ radio broadcasting unit was officially inaugurated in April 16th, 1923, his first appearence “on the air” in August 22nd´ 1922, became it the first to trasmit a signal in the Cuban Radio History, Every night before 9.00 P.M,. bethween both dates, the musician itself played an attention calling with a little toy trummpet, and kept an identification signal by rhytmic beats on the little toy trumpet, until the traditional 9:00 cannon shot from La Cabaña Fortress indicated the hour to the people, then its director said: “Its Nine O´clock”, and immediately a weather report started. Thus, the firs radio news service was born in Cuba. One of his daughters Zoila Casas, joined the team and identified the broadcasted music compositions, Thus she was the first Latin American female radio speaker , to be heard.
1928
Musician Pascasio Alonso Fajardo was born.
22 de Agosto de 1928
Musician Pascasio Alonso Fajardo, better known as Pacho Alonso and one of the most popular performers of Cuban popular music and an outstanding band leader. He was born on August 22, 1928 in Santiago de Cuba and died on August 27, 1982 in Havana.
He worked as teacher, but very soon he understood that his true vocation was becoming an artist.
In 1951, when Mariano Mercerón set up his jazz band, Pacho Alonso was one of the vocalists of this ensemble with which Alonso made his first recordings. In 1954, he created his own group with the name of Pacho Alonso y sus Modernistas which would be characterized by a marked santiaguera thematic. Four years later, he restructured the group and gave way to Pacho Alonso y sus Bocucos and moved to Havana. Later, he created the group Pacho Alonso y sus Pachucos.
As a vocalist he had an extraordinary tuning, phrasing and perfect metric.
He used to sing what can be called sort of musical scenes of costumbrismo and characters of his native Santiago de Cuba. His style was called the Pacho style.
In 1962, he made a journey to several countries of Europe. Two years later the composer Enrique Bonne proposed Pacho the idea of creating the rhythm Pilon which would basically take from the rhythmic, melodic elements and timbre of the órgano oriental and the movement of the body (as if it danced) of the peasants in the eastern mountains when they shell and mill or squash the coffee toasted in the pilon, a sort of big mortar made of a trunk of hollowed tree.
Pacho Alonso performed successfully in several countries.
1928
Singer, composer and orchestra conductor Pascasio Alonso Fajardo (Pacho Alonso)was born.
22 de Agosto de 1928
He was born in Santiago de Cuba in August 22nd, 1928 and he died in August 28th, 1982. He participated as singer in school shows held in the old Coliseo Theatre . He studied professoral career in the Escuela Normal (Professoral School) of Santiago de Cuba, at the same time he was working in the Cadena Oriental de Radio. In 1946 he made a journey to Havana, where he met Bebo Valdés, and José Antonio Méndez, who took him to sing in Mil Diez (1010 Khz) radio station. In 1951 he began singin in Mariano Mercerón Orchestra. In 1954 he created his grouping, andin 1957 he settled in the Cuban capital performing in dancings, in nithe clubs, and recreational societies. At the same time he pperformed in in radio and TV. In 1962 he traveled to France, Czechoslovakia and the late Soviet Union, with his grouping “Los Bocucos”. When he performed in the Tchaikovski Hall in Moscow he endend up with its tradition, because a popular music group has never been staged there. He created the Pilón and Simalé rhytms.
1961
Cuba artists and creators officially joined and elected Nicolas Guillén Batista.
22 de Agosto de 1961
The National Poet of Cuba, as their first President, Initially thier aims were joining the intellectuals within the Young Cuban Revolution in order to keep a genuine culture. Nowadays, 40 years later, the UNEAC faces problems arisen from globalization, and plays an important role in the reaffirmation of the Cuban culture values, and in the conformation of an spectator, of a critical reader, active participants, able, in effect to establis a creative dialogue with present-day cultural production.-Graciela Pogolloti.
2002
Singer Fernando Alvarez passed away.
22 de Agosto de 2002
He was born in Saniago de Cuba on November 4, 1928. He started as a vocalist in popular orchestras, like Armonía Tropical, Hnos. Giró and Mariano Mercerán, among others. He arrived to Havana hired by Benny Moré orchestra in the early 1950´s, later he sang in the Conjunto Casino. Later, he became a soloist. His style belongs to the "filin". One of the leading Bolero singers in Cuba. He has made plenty of recordings and has performed in radio, television, night centers and each and every "Boleros de Oro" ("Golden Boleros") Festival. He died in Havana City in August 22nd, 2002.
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