Lilia Rosa López López-Silverio, one of the great voices of Cuban radio, died on the night of Saturday, November 8 at the age of 92, according to sources close to the family on social networks and a note published on the Cuban radio website.
Born in 1933 in the city of Santa Clara, she began as a child in the media, participating in numerous children’s programs on the local station CMXH and then on the well-known CMHW, in which she participated in dramatized productions and as a scriptwriter for musical and informative spaces, according to a recent outline biographical.
He studied teaching at the Santa Clara Normal School for Teachers, and journalism at the “Manuel Márquez Sterling” Professional School of Journalism.
When the revolution triumphed in 1959, he took on an interview slot on the Villa Clara radio, in which he spoke with the commanders Ernesto Che Guevara and Faure Chomón and the Marxist Gaspar Jorge García Galló.
Once established in Havana with her family, Lilia Rosa began working as an announcer at Radio Habana Cuba since its founding in 1961, becoming the voice that would identify the shortwave station starting in 1968. Likewise, she lent her talent to the Radio Liberación station for 20 years.
In 1979 he joined Radio Progreso, the station he considered his home, where he systematically carried out multiple programs for more than 30 years, including newscasts and informative magazines, musical programs and live broadcasts.
His professional work extended to television with the anniversary program “This Day” and to audiovisual productions with Mundo Latino, Cubavisión and the Educativo 1 and 2 channels, among other collaborations.
In film, directed by Santiago Álvarez, she undertook the production of documentaries about the Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Min (1969), and others related to the war in Vietnam, or with the American activist Angela Davis (1972). At the same time, he narrated Fidel Castro’s international tours and provided his voice in the feature film And the sky was taken by storm (1973), by Álvarez himself, about the revolutionary leader’s Third World tour.
For her professional work she was recognized with numerous awards and distinctions, including the 2007 National Radio Award, Emeritus Artist of the ICRT, Illustrious Member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (Uneac), Violeta Casal Award and the Distinction for National Culture.
