AREQUIPA, Peru – At the beginning of the 2000s, the Cuban actress Solange Ramón knew how to conquer the public with her character of Anita in the children’s program The Yellow Umbrella. His character and the children’s series had and still has a great impact on television Cuban due to frequent rebroadcasts.
Like Anita, Ramón spent five years in The Yellow Umbrella. From 19 to 24, the actress gave life to this young woman who became an icon for children and adults.
As part of her career on the Island, the actress also appeared in dramas such as the soap opera Portrait of Woman and the series The Count of Monte Cristo. In the cinema, he was part of the cast of the film Mauritius diary pages.
More than a decade ago, Ramón emigrated and settled in Cádiz, Spain. In recent statements for the portal CubaActorsshared details about her current life, the impact of her character Anita, and how much she misses Cuba.
“Anita has been with me all my life, people still remember. Where I live, if I meet a Cuban contemporary with me, they tell me that they grew up watching the program. I owe everything to Anita, to her freshness, her naivety, to having approached the children’s audience that I love very much and for whom I have respect, because they are a fairly sincere audience,” he told the aforementioned media.
Ramón, while in Spain, has remained linked to the art world in one way or another, whether singing, hosting events, serving as master of ceremonies. Likewise, now he is also dedicated to the real estate sector and his family.
“I think it’s not bad for actors to venture into other jobs, because they are also experiences that nourish them. Obviously, if you train in something other than acting then you will use it, you will have the resource there, it opens up other job prospects both inside and outside the country. The world of acting is very beautiful, but it can be very unstable, and you will have stages in which you work more or less.”
The actress says that when she arrived in Spain she had just finished Mauritius diary pagesa film that was also known in the European country. For this reason, he met influential people in the field, including producers and representatives.
“The job offers and conditions, at least for me, at that time were quite murky (…) I realized that things in Spain work differently, or you have a sponsor or a representative, who takes the money from you, or you entered into a type of complacency, and none of the three interested me. Then I noticed that many people they became famous for reasons that for me had no merit, for being with someone, for a scandal, and the tabloid press is quite cruel.”
Away from social networks (of which only Instagram remains), the public eye and the screens, Solange Ramón managed to make her way. She was married for 15 years, although she now considers herself “happily divorced” and a proud mother of two young daughters.
“Havana, 12 years old, who started high school or high school as they call it here. His father gave him the name, it seemed a little strange to me, but when I saw his face I said: ‘Yes, he has a Havana face.’ “He likes anime and everything that has to do with Asia, and he draws very well.”
“I have my girl Camila who is seven years old, she is a unicorn, happiness, a rainbow. Havana is more radical, rebellious. “They are both my suns.”
At 44 years old, Ramón reflects on the meaning of being Cuban and the symbology behind a tattoo with the island’s flag that he has on his leg. As he comments, it represents the Cuba that he left and knows that “no longer exists.”
“Talking about Cuba is always painful. ‘Cuba is a tattoo in the heart’, I always carry it inside me and I wanted to put it on my leg. It is very difficult for a Cuban to get Cuba out of their heart, its people, its idiosyncrasies, its streets, its music, its smells.”
Despite living in Cádiz where there is also the sea, although with colder and rougher waters, the actress recognizes that she misses the youth lived on the Island, as well as the sunsets. on the Havana boardwalk.
“I always carry my Cuban identity with pride, and when people tell me that I don’t look like I’m from there, I say that there is everything on the island. That’s why I wanted to get it tattooed, because I am Made in Cuba. No matter how many years I spend abroad, Cuba is always in me.”
