The third edition of the Havana World Music Festival will be held in this city from next March 24 to 27, and will feature artists from around the world.

National and international media reproduced on Thursday the words of Puerto Rican singer Gilberto Santa Rosa, who highlighted the musical relationship existing between Cuba and Puerto Rico, despite the U.S. blockade.

The Diva of the Buena Vista Social Club, Omara Portuondo, and flamenco singer Diego El Cigala, will celebrate in 2016 the 85th birthday of the first, with a tour of Europe that will join the voices of these two worldwide known artists on stage.

Retrato de una diva, documentary that shows the process of recording of the album Magia Negra, by Cuban singer Omara Portuondo, was premiered at Cuba Pavilion.

The expected 31st Jazz Plaza International Festival 2015 began on Thursday at Mella Theater with the presentation of maestro Ernán Lopez Nussa and his trio, along with The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, US group from New Orleans.

Cuban singer Silvio Rodriguez will perform in Spain, in the spring of 2016, after nine years of absence, as announced today by numerous newspapers and Web sites of the Iberian Peninsula and confirmed the singer-songwriter in his personal blog Segunda Cita.

The Cuban film Vestido de Novia, by filmmaker Marilyn Solaya, is one of the candidates to the 30th edition of the Goya Awards, announced today the Spanish Film Academy, the Prensa Latina news agency reported.

Japanese professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka won the 2015 edition of the Carlos J. Finlay Unesco Prize for Microbiology, which will be handed over on December 21 at the capital's Academy of Sciences, reported Prensa Latina.

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 11 (acn) The documentary El poeta de La Habana, which includes 30 years of artistic life of the Cuban singer-songwriter Carlos Varela, will be premiered today in Cuba as part of the program of the 37th Havana Film Festival.

My career is divided into before and after Cuba, said today in Havana Puerto Rican singer Olga Tañón, who will give a concert on Saturday at the Anti-Imperialist Tribunal in the capital, under the name of "Promesa cumplida" (Promise fulfilled).

The 6 th Day of the 37th International Film Festival of New Latin American Cinema began with a talk on the creative process of HBO and the panorama of the US media.

The albums Tributo a Los Compadres: No Quiero Llanto, by José Alberto "El Canario" and the Septeto Santiaguero, and Suite Caminos, by Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba were nominated on Monday to the 2016 Grammy Awards, as announced by the contest's official Web site.

The 37th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema will be inaugurated tonight at Karl Marx Theater with the screening of the feature film El Clan (2015), directed by the renowned Argentine filmmaker Pablo Trapero.

Renowned Cuban pianist Frank Fernandez will perform on Wednesday in the eastern city of Guantanamo in the first of his two concerts scheduled during the 20th edition of the Guantanamera Festival, important cultural event in that part of the country.