Guillermo Alvarez Guedes was born in 1927 in Unión de Reyes, Matanzas province, and left Cuba in 1960 when he already enjoyed great recognition as a comedian, having performed on radio, television and cabarets together with the principal figures of scenic art. That is the teaching of the latter testimony. If we are fine we laugh from satisfaction, but if we are not fine, if we are going through a difficult situation, we also laugh to lighten the burden. That has been the humour for Cubans since the beginnings of the nation, the best medicine for all their problems. According to that person’s testimony, at one time he suffered a strong pain in the chest and when he was being transported to the hospital he asked for a tape recorder to listen to his stories, which had a relaxing effect on him and he didn’t get to have a heart attack. In one of his records, Alvarez Guedes talks about the satisfaction he got out of the anecdote of a man whose stories saved his life. One of the greatest diffusers – to avoid the absolute – of the humoristic popular story in Latin America has taken it with him. The recent death in Florida of Cuban actor, singer and musical producer Guillermo Alvarez Guedes makes it necessary to make a review of his extensive work, his incomparable contribution to humour based on Cubans’ way of being.
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