Ciro Benemelis, president of CUBADISCO, pronounced a speech at the International Symposium Cubadisco 2007. He considered this moment as opening toward other roads. He says that the record houses must to be with a view not only commercial, but also as cultural institutions. Lastly, he opened the convocation to the next edition of CUBADISCO, dedicated to Africa and the Diaspora and as a main issue the music and the poetry.
For a better world
In the homage concert to the brothers Vitier – Sergio and José María-, Honor Prize CUBADISCO 2007, was also to pay tribute to the veteran international non governmental organizations of the country: Cuban Association of the United Nations (ACNU) that during the last seventy year had gathered together persons and institutions that had the interest to know and to participate in such organization and to promote the values of the UN Charter, in special to the respect to the sovereignty, the independence, the territorial integrity of the states and the no interference in the country’s internal affairs, from which Cuba have been and still is an ardent defender.
Honor Prize at Cubadisco 2007 to Andy Montañez
The Cuban Music's Institute and the International Music Fair Cubadisco awarded the Puerto Rican songwriter Andy Montañez the Prize of Honor CUBADISCO 2007, for his exceptional contributions that through his work, he has offered to the Latin American Culture.
During the ten years of existence of CUBADISCO, this prize has been granted to distinguished personalities of the music's world such as Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés, Joan Manuel Serrat, Leo Brouwer, Chucho Valdés, Ryu Murakami, Juan Formell, Vicente Garrido, Víctor Víctor y Oscar Chávez among others.
The Guitar and the Friendship.
The admirers of the guitarist performance art of the Japanese musician Antonio Koga attended yesterday the concert that offered the great friend of Cuba in the theatre Auditorium Amadeo Roldán as opportunity to hear his music and also to appreciate his goodwill gesture to our country: the shipment of a lot of guitars destined to the Cuban artistic education. He sent it a few days before he arrived to Cuba at CUBADISCO 2007.
The formal delivery of the second donation took place in the Club of Correspondents of the Foreign Press in Tokyo, occasion in which the Ambassador of Cuba in Japan, Orlando Hernández Guillén, emphasized the multiple bonds of friendship that joined the both countries and the cultural ties and friendship of more than one decade with the Maestro Koga.
Koga feels that he has a commitment with the education of the Cuban music by its quality and extension, without mentioning its advantage, and evoked his cultural formation during the shortages of the post-war period. “First, I owe the guitar my life and then to be with Cuba”.
CUBADISCO awarded to him with a Prize of Honor in the edition of 2005. In 1995 he received the distinction by the National Culture; and besides he obtained the Medal by the Cuba-Japan Collaboration.
Antonio Koga is considered by the critic specialized as one of the best performer of guitar in the Asian continent. He has recorded more than two hundred discs.
Guinea Rap in the XI Cubadisco Fair.
Miki, rapper singer from Equatorial Guinea, cultivator of dissimilar alternative expressions of the contemporary music, will perform his version of those fused rhythms with the music of his country. This artist will be performing in the fairground “Pavellon Cuba", venue of the XI Cubadisco International Music Fair.
From Uruguay to Cuba "Fugata Tango"
Coming from Uruguay and musically directed by the pianist and composer Juan Schellemberg, the group "Fugata Tango" will visit us in Cubadisco. Our audience will enjoy an aesthetic proposal directed to the instrumental tango that includes compositions of Shellemberg and works of Piazzolla, Julián Plaza, Troilo and Pugliese where two violins, a large accordion, contrabass, singer and a couple of dancers will give us a show where creation and re-creation are enhanced in a musical and dancing search that opens new directions for this gender.
Ciro Benemelis, president of CUBADISCO, pronounced a speech at the International Symposium Cubadisco 2007. He considered this moment as opening toward other roads. He says that the record houses must to be with a view not only commercial, but also as cultural institutions. Lastly, he opened the convocation to the next edition of CUBADISCO, dedicated to Africa and the Diaspora and as a main issue the music and the poetry. 
In the homage concert to the brothers Vitier – Sergio and José María-, Honor Prize CUBADISCO 2007, was also to pay tribute to the veteran international non governmental organizations of the country: Cuban Association of the United Nations (ACNU) that during the last seventy year had gathered together persons and institutions that had the interest to know and to participate in such organization and to promote the values of the UN Charter, in special to the respect to the sovereignty, the independence, the territorial integrity of the states and the no interference in the country’s internal affairs, from which Cuba have been and still is an ardent defender. 
The Cuban Music's Institute and the International Music Fair Cubadisco awarded the Puerto Rican songwriter Andy Montañez the Prize of Honor CUBADISCO 2007, for his exceptional contributions that through his work, he has offered to the Latin American Culture. 
The admirers of the guitarist performance art of the Japanese musician Antonio Koga attended yesterday the concert that offered the great friend of Cuba in the theatre Auditorium Amadeo Roldán as opportunity to hear his music and also to appreciate his goodwill gesture to our country: the shipment of a lot of guitars destined to the Cuban artistic education. He sent it a few days before he arrived to Cuba at CUBADISCO 2007.
Miki, rapper singer from Equatorial Guinea, cultivator of dissimilar alternative expressions of the contemporary music, will perform his version of those fused rhythms with the music of his country. This artist will be performing in the fairground “Pavellon Cuba", venue of the XI Cubadisco International Music Fair. 
Coming from Uruguay and musically directed by the pianist and composer Juan Schellemberg, the group "Fugata Tango" will visit us in Cubadisco. Our audience will enjoy an aesthetic proposal directed to the instrumental tango that includes compositions of Shellemberg and works of Piazzolla, Julián Plaza, Troilo and Pugliese where two violins, a large accordion, contrabass, singer and a couple of dancers will give us a show where creation and re-creation are enhanced in a musical and dancing search that opens new directions for this gender. 