16/02/2021 – 9:05 am (GMT-4)
Popular Cuban-born TV presenter, Fernando Hidalgo, died in Miami at sunrise this Tuesday of pneumonia from COVID-19, as confirmed on social networks by his wife, Nereida Dellan.
“Fernando Hidalgo lost his battle. It’s in God’s hands. Thank you for your prayers. Thank you for your support. Thank you to the people who have always supported him,” Dellan wrote on Facebook, asking for prayers for recovery over the past few days from her husband.
The also actor, producer, writer – who was known as “Viewer Enchantress”– developed a successful career on television over decades, producing more than a dozen programs.
It is mainly recognized in South Florida and several US cities for the “Fernando Hidalgo Show”, which aired on Channel 41 for over a decade, from America TeVé, a channel where he was also in charge of Los casados feliz.
Hidalgo left Cuba with his parents in the early 1960s for Chicago, where he gradually developed into a recognized figure in local Spanish radio.
He later settled in Puerto Rico, where he built a broad artistic career as a presenter, presenter and actor.
In the 1970s he returned to the United States and worked in Hollywood with the likes of John Wayne and Rock Hudson. However, Hidalgo would return to Puerto Rico to become a television producer.
He then lived in Venezuela for a while, where he starred in the successful humorous television series in the early 1980s Be happy in marriage, which was distributed in twenty Latin American countries and also acquired a major Spanish-language channel in the US.
Parallel to his television career, Fernando Hidalgo studied metaphysics in a self-taught way, in the 1970s, even going so far as to open an office where he faced sentimental and self-esteem issues for five years.
Hidalgo is the author of the motivational book Survivor from hell (Alexandra Library Inc.), with a strong autobiographical connotation and in which he questions the prejudices introduced in traditional religions.
Despite leaving Cuba as a child, Hidalgo often spoke about his childhood on the island. He always said he had a bad childhood and was “curious about everything around him.”
‘He was an extremely poor child. My father earned a small salary as a soldier, and that meager amount was the only support for the family. He lived in many of eight rooms, or rooms, and a different family lived in each of those rooms, although we all shared a common bathroom. I remember that for toilet paper we had bits of old newspapers and magazines hanging from a nail on the wall. Today, the use of newspapers for these purposes in Cuba is so widespread that it no longer attracts attention, but in my youth, in those days, the newspaper in the toilets was a sign of poverty, ”he confessed in his book. Survivor from hell.
“Behind all adversity is the seed of opportunity”, was one of the slogans most vigorously repeated by Hidalgo, whose departure has been deeply felt Cuban artists whom he helped establish in Miami’s artistic universe on several occasions.
In mid-January, he offered one of his last television interviews for Univista, in which he spoke about an upcoming work project involving Cuba, whose freedom he has always dreamed of.
“The phone woke me up to the sad news of the death of Fernando Hidalgo. My condolences to his family children,” Cuban presenter José “Carlucho” wrote on Instagram on Tuesday, one of the people who always appreciated the opportunity he got. posed. Hidalgo offered to move forward.
“Until the end works. This was his last commercial produced by Univistatv. Full of dreams and the illusion that we would one day return to Cuba without dictatorship. I believe many of us today should say ‘Thank you Fernando’. Rest in peace”, wrote Carlucho in a second message.
“Sad news, great news has left us !! Fernando Hidalgo died as a result of complications from the Covid. Our condolences to his family and friends. The Fernando Hidalgo Show was for years the best they had at 7am in Miami. , insurmountable and unrepeatable, that’s where we take our first steps on TV! DEP Fernando !! “, they wrote for their part Los Pichy Boys.
The Cuban comedian also regretted the death of Fernando Hidalgo Boncó Quiñongo.