1 | 26/12/2020 – 19:30 (GMT-4)
The Cuban actor, speaker and comedian Eduardo Àngel Calderón González, Eddy Calderón, popularly known for his imitations of Fidel Castro, he died this Saturday in Miami of cerebrovascular complications. He was 65 years old.
Calderon died at 1:40 p.m. at the University of Miami Hospital, they have confirmed to CiberCuba family sources.
At the end of last July, the artist was admitted to intensive care afterwards suffer a stroke silent due to apparent complications related to the coronavirus, and since then his health has been severely affected.
Comedian, singer, composer, presenter, and poet, with his death disappears a hardworking and versatile actor who starred in the best characterizations of Fidel Castro in exile, with nuances of voice that no other imitator of the ruler could match.
“Eddy Calderon was an amazing guy and a friend you could always count on,” he told CiberCuba the renowned Cuban actor Gilberto Reis, exiled to Miami. “He was a man who always gave, who gave away his work selflessly without making excuses.”
Eddy Calderón was born the 7 from December of 1955 in the Havanan hospital Daughters of Galicia, in Luyanó, and from boy it was distinguished to make imitations and to resort to humor in public scenes, without noticing in solemnities, with great spirit of irreverence. His family did not share the ideals of the communist process and his father Angel Julian Calderon served political imprisonment before leaving the country.
He arrived in the United States with his family on February 15, 1979, and worked in factories and construction in Hialeah before moving to New York with his wife Elizabeth in the fall of 1980.
In New York he began to forge himself as a self-taught artist. He participates as an imitator in television programs, and a presenter of private events and parties, and begins to write poems, songs and booklets, which he has been doing since he was a child.
In addition to his more than 30 years of experience in radio, television and theater, and being an important figure in the Cuban exile in Miami, Eddy Calderón was recognized by its great histrionic capacity and its facility to imitate public figures, among them Fidel Castro.
His impressive ability to interpret Castro’s voice and gestures in various humorous spaces, mainly on television The Return Table, Earned him for years the admiration of many South Florida fans.
Also, such teaching to imitate the Cuban dictator led him to give voice to the French tape In the skin of Fidel Castro, Performed by Karl Zero and Daisy d’Errata in 2010.
In addition to dedicating himself to locution and acting, Calderón wrote more than 100 songs and composed poems.
He excelled in television programs Ninety miles, from Latin Miami TV; La Barca de Calderón, De AméricaTeVé; and on the radio with The Morning Timba and, more recently with Sawesiando, By the station La Poderosa (670 AM). He also worked on satirical programs on Ràdio TV Martí.
Information about his funeral will be released by his family at an upcoming date.