Pujols actress Yolanda dies figure of Cuban radio and television – Café Fuerte

Yolanda Pujols with her husband, Salvador Wood, in a photo of 2014. Photo: René Pérez Massola

By Editorial CaféFuerte

The actress Yolanda González Pujols, known for its long career in Cuban radio and television, died Thursday in Havana at age 90, official media reported.

Pujols marked an era as pioneer female speech in Cuba. She and her sister Carmen Pujols announcers were the first two women who had the radio in Santiago de Cuba, his hometown, in a program called Clock Air, in the 40s.

The reports appeared today in the Cuban press did not disclose the cause of death. Some reports show that killed 87, although numerous documents listed as the date of his birth on September 4, 1924.

His name also gained notoriety as the wife of the great Cuban actor Salvador Wood, who was married for more than six decades.

Early Artist

Pujols had an early career. With only 10 years he won first prize in the Theater East as part of the cast in the Oriental Radio station Cadena, in Santiago de Cuba. He participated as an amateur in the CMKW station to join as young lady box comedies of the Department of Drama at the Institute of Secondary Education of the city, at the request of the theater director José María Béjar.

Bejar not was wrong in its initial selection then she promoted her as a leading actress of his theater group. Later he joined the cast of the dramatic CMKW, Oriental Radio, where he won his first salary as professional performance: 30 pesos. In that station, which spread its programming nationwide, he shook links and shared the stage with luminaries of Cuban future performance as Marcial Avellaneda, Magaly Alou, Juan Carlos Romero and Enrique Almirante.

He worked in the novels Radio Progreso, Union Radio, and CMQ until 1952, when he joined the cast of the nascent Cuban television. His voice was recognized by those years as the star of the radio soap opera What the river carries, popular novel CMQ Radio.

Political commitment

At the triumph of the 1959 revolution, continued his worked in television and as a broadcaster of advertising for the commercial firm Sabatés until 1961. In 1968 was foundress of the Tele Rebelde station in Santiago de Cuba.

Cuban television kept working hard in space adventures and dramas as Horizons and Theatre. One of his most popular roles was that of Francisca grandmother in The Adventures of Enrique de Lagardere .

After retirement, he participated with her husband in the soap opera The I have left to live, work Mayté Vera transmitted Cubavisión in stellar space.

He was awarded the Distinction for National Culture and the National Radio Award for the Work of Life . Both she and her husband were considered figures of strong political commitment to the Cuban regime.

His remains are exposed in the Funeral Calzada and K, Vedado, in Havana, and then be cremated.