• Submitted by: lena campos
• Personalities
• 08 / 09 / 2013

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Radio Havana Cuba founder and a worker for over 50 years, Ignacio Lorenzo Canel, has been distinguished with the National Radio Award for a Lifetime.

Over the past five decades, Canel has worked at the international shortwave radio station in different specialties, including announcer,sound engineer and executive director, scriptwriter, music and editor.

Born in Havana in 1949, Canel first worked at a local radio station at the Education Ministry, and in 1961, he began working at Radio Havana Cuba, where he worked at the audio and voice archives, which is a patrimony treasuring some 10,000 hours with recordings of speeches and remarks by leaders of the Cuban Revolution and foreign personalities.

Canel, who retired in 2004, has also worked at Radio Berlin, Radio Moscow, Radio Prague and Radio Warsaw.  At present, he is leading RHC's Ibero-American news program, which is beamed to Latin America and Europe.
 
He was also awarded other distinctions acknowledging his services in the radio sector.

In statements to Granma newspaper, Canel said that the National Radio Medal is the highest recognition he has ever been granted.  He said he received the announcement about the award with great emotion and thanked all his colleagues that have supported his work in radio, to which he has dedicated nearly all his life.

The Radio Havana Cuba worker will receive the Medal on October 7th at Havana's Jose Marti Memorial.

Source: Cadena Agramonte.cu