| 16/02/2021 – 9:05 am (GMT-4)
The popular television presenter of Cuban origin, Fernando Hidalgo, Died in Miami on Tuesday morning from a pneumonia derived from COVID-19, as confirmed on social media by his wife, Nereida Dellan.
“Fernando Hidalgo lost his battle. He is in God’s hands. Thank you for your prayers. Thank you for your support. Thank you to the people who always supported you,” Dellan wrote on Facebook, where in recent days he had asked for prayers for her husband’s recovery.
Also the actor, producer, writer – who was known like “Charming Viewers”– developed over several decades a successful career in television, where he produced more than a dozen programs.
He is best known in South Florida and several U.S. cities for the “Fernando Hidalgo Show.”, Which aired on Channel 41 for more than a decade America Esteve, Channel where he was also the head of Los casats feliços.
Hidalgo left Cuba in the company of his parents in the early 1960s for Chicago, where he gradually formed as a recognized figure in local Hispanic radio.
He then settled in Puerto Rico, where he based his extensive artistic career as a broadcaster, television presenter and actor.
In the 1970s he returned to the United States and worked in Hollywood alongside figures such as John Wayne and Rock Hudson. However, Hidalgo would eventually return to Puerto Rico to become a television producer.
Later it lived during a time Venezuela, where at the beginning of years 80 it carried out the successful humoristic series of television How to be happy in marriage, Which was distributed in twenty Latin American countries and also acquired a major Spanish-speaking channel in the US
In parallel to his television career, Fernando Hidalgo studied Metaphysics in a self-taught way, in the 70s and even opened a doctor’s office where for five years he attended to emotional and self-esteem problems.
Hidalgo is the author of the motivational book Survivor of hell (Alexandra Library Inc.), of strong autobiographical charge and in which it questions the prejudices inculcated by the traditional religions.
Despite leaving Cuba as a child, Hidalgo frequently spoke of his childhood on the island. He always said he had a poor childhood and was “full of curiosity about everything around him.”
“He was an extremely poor child. My father earned a small salary as a soldier, and that meager amount of money was the only support for the family. He lived on a plot of eight rooms, or rooms, and in each of them. these rooms were inhabited by a different family, although we all shared a common bathroom.I remember that for toilet paper we had pieces of old newspapers and magazines, which hung from a nail on the wall.Currently, in Cuba, the use of newspapers for these necessities has become so widespread that it no longer attracts attention, but in my childhood, in those days, the regular paper in the toilets was a sign of poverty, “he confessed in his book Survive from hell.
“Behind all adversity is the seed of opportunity”, Was one of the mottos that Hidalgo most insistently repeated, the game has been very felt by Cuban artists whom on several occasions helped to establish themselves in the artistic universe of Miami.
In mid-January, he offered one of his last television interviews, for Univista, in which he talked about an upcoming work project related to Cuba, with the freedom he always dreamed of.
“I woke up the phone with the sad news of the death of Fernando Hidalgo. For his family children my deepest condolences,” Cuban presenter José “Carlucho” wrote on Instagram on Tuesday, one of the people he has always thanked the opportunity that Hidalgo will give him to move forward.
“Until the Working End. This was his last commercial produced by Univistatv. Full of dreams and the Illusion of returning to Cuba without Dictatorship someday. I think today many of us should say ‘Thank you Fernando’. Rest in peace.”, he wrote Carlucho in a second publication.
“Sad news, we were a great !! Fernando Hidalgo died of complications from Covid. Our deepest condolences to his family and friends. The Ferran Hidalgo Show was for many years the best they had at 7 pm in Miami, unbeatable and unrepeatable, this is where we took our first steps on TV! DEP Fernando !! “, they wrote for their part The Pichy Boys.
The Cuban comedian also reacted to the death of Ferran Hidalgo Boncó Quiñongo.