República de Cuba - No Paramos

Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, the Atlantic Ocean to the northeast, and the Caribbean Sea to the south. Cuba has a population of approximately 10 million, the majority of whom are Christians, making it the third-largest country in the Caribbean (after Haiti and the Dominican Republic). The country's capital is Havana, the second-largest metropolis in the Caribbean.

Cuba is a one-party dictatorship. The authoritarian government regularly commits serious human rights violations. The economy is weak, and the general standard of living is low. Large parts of the population live in poverty.

Upon his arrival, Columbus initially named the island Juana after Prince Don Juan. In 1515, his father, Fernando II, King of Spain, ordered the renaming to Fernandina, as only one island in the Bahamas (now Long Island) had been named after him.

The name "Cuba" likely comes from the Carib or Taíno language. The words coa (= place) and bana (= large) mean something like "large place." Columbus wrote that he landed at a place the indigenous people called Cubao, Cuban, or Cibao. These names evidently referred to a mountainous region near the landing site in eastern Cuba.

In 1964, the Cuban writer and etymologist José Juan Arrom described the following word origin: According to his account, the Arawak language contains the term kuba-annakan or cubanacán, which means "country or province in the middle." This makes it virtually certain that "Cuba" meant something like "country" or "province" in the local language.

Another naming theory focuses on the town of Cuba in Alentejo, Portugal; it is here that Columbus was born as an illegitimate offspring of the Portuguese royal family.

Cuba - No Paramos

Even as a small child I wanted to learn a musical instrument...

...since there was a music school in our small town where I grew up, but it was limited to the activities of the local musicians' band, the choice was rather limited... because piano, guitar or saxophone were not offered and that's why I decided me for the trumpet, which was not used for cast-technical reasons, so the FLÜGELHORN became my instrument...
In my youth I turned my back on music and was active in sports towards the end of my teenage years...


“I can do many things so intensively that perfection isn’t even necessary.”

Cuba - No Paramos

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