SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- Although he was born in the city of Santa Clara, Yumie Rodriguez She forged most of her career in Havana, where she was one of the hosts of the program Meeting with Clio and Midday on TVwhere the Cubavisión channel’s schedule was offered.
Born on September 25, 1973, Yumié’s voice acting runs in the family, as her father, Rolando Rodríguez Frenes, was provincial radio director in Villa Clara for over 20 years and her mother, Zady Flor, was a CMHW announcer.
Having moved with his parents to Havana, at the age of 14 he enrolled in a theatre workshop at the Gran Teatro de La Habana, and after finishing high school he entered the ENIT (National School of Theatre Instructors).
Already in his last year he took a test locutionto enroll in a course and in a short time he went to work at the COCO radio station.
In the Cuban capital it was also forming on Radio Cadena Habana, Radio Encyclopedia and Radio Progreso.
He founded, together with fellow announcer Niro de la Rúa, the space Meeting with Clioa youth engagement program on history.
Her facet as a writer
Yumié not only dedicated herself to voice acting, but also transcended within the public for her role as a writer of children’s literature. Among her books are: The Jam Farm, Jícara and Make a wish.
He also created the theatre company Dreams to tellaimed at the youngest children.
His prolific work continued outside of Cuba, where he has been able to offer oral storytelling workshops and others in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Uruguay, he recalled. Cubalite.
She arrived in Uruguay for the first time in 2022, to attend the book fair in that country, at the invitation of her friend María Luisa de Francesco, whom she had met at the Bogotá book fair, as the announcer told this Saturday. Abel Alvarez.
Yumié Rodriguez in Uruguay
Although he returned to Cuba, he did so already having a work contract so that he could return and settle in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he currently resides and where his brother was also located.
“I founded an oral storytelling school with her in the Bacaba department of Salto because she is a writer, an oral storyteller and we had met, precisely through the presentation of my book at the Bogotá book fair (…) So I was here for a month in May 2022, I went to Cuba but I already had a work contract to return,” he said.
So far, Yumié has eight books to her credit and from the South American country she teaches workshops on initiation to the performing arts, use and placement of voice, initiation to reading habits, creative writing, at the Urunday Club in Montevideo, according to her information on her profile on the professional network LinkedIn.
For almost two years, she has been a reading promoter at the Cultural Center of Spain, in the Uruguayan capital.
