{"id":4807,"date":"2026-02-18T05:50:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/?p=4807"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:53:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:53:47","slug":"cuban-singer-claudio-rodriguez-wins-award-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/cuban-singer-claudio-rodriguez-wins-award-in-europe-18022026\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban Singer Claudio Rodr\u00edguez Wins Award in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young Cuban performer Claudio Rodr\u00edguez won Third Prize in the Best Performance in Spanish Language category at the 2025 edition of the <strong>Orfeum Awards<\/strong>, an international music competition based in Spain. The accolade was granted to the popular singer for his rendition of the unreleased track <em><strong>Me Preguntan<\/strong><\/em>, written by Nicole Ferran, with music by maestro Germ\u00e1n Nogueira, who also handled the arrangements and overall production.<\/p>\n<p>In this edition, fellow Cuban artists were also recognized: Vocal Universo took first prize; Alfonso Llorens placed second in the Best Performance in Spanish Language (Hispanic American Artist) category; and Germ\u00e1n Nogueira was likewise honored.<\/p>\n<p>Rodr\u00edguez\u2014known for songs such as <em><strong>Siempre Estar\u00e9<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Tu Romeo<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Tatuado en Mi Alma<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Amorcito M\u00edo,<\/strong><\/em> and his most recent hit <em><strong>Este Bolero<\/strong><\/em>\u2014expressed his gratitude and satisfaction on social media for the distinction.<\/p>\n<p>The jury presented awards in a dozen categories, some subdivided into adult, junior, Spanish-language version, original song in Spanish, and Spanish-language music video. Participants included artists from the Czech Republic, Sweden, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Italy, Estonia, Cyprus, Germany, Brazil, Spain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Lithuania, among other nations.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Orfeum Awards<\/strong>, sponsored by the European Music Festivals Organization, serve as a platform for recognizing musical talent across Europe, with special emphasis on the diversity of genres and languages. Prizes and distinctions will be presented soon at the Palacio de Longoria in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Translated by Luis E. Amador Dominguez<\/p>\n<p>Photo: RODAIR&#8217;s Studio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Cuban performer Claudio Rodr\u00edguez won Third Prize in the Best Performance in Spanish Language category at the 2025 edition of the Orfeum Awards, an international music competition based in Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1044],"ppma_author":[244],"class_list":["post-4807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-cuba","tag-claudio-rodriguez"],"authors":[{"term_id":244,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"edelvis-lopez-zaldivar","display_name":"Edelvis L\u00f3pez Zald\u00edvar","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4808,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions\/4808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4807"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}