Ernesto Juan Castellanos

Ernesto Juan Castellanos is a Cuban freelance author, translator, educator, journalist, producer, filmmaker, and researcher who currently lives and works in Miami. Before moving to Florida in late 2011, Ernesto was a fixture in the Havana cultural scene, serving as the Cuban producer for concerts by the Manic Street Preachers, Asian Dub Foundation, Audioslave, Simply Red, and Kool & the Gang, in addition to production work with Peter Frampton, Mick Fleetwood, Gladys Knight, Bonnie Raitt and other US artists who traveled to Cuba as part of the Music Bridges songwriting workshop in 1999.

In the mid 90’s, Ernesto Juan led an effort to rehabilitate The Beatles in Cuba, following a '60s ban on their music by the Fidel Castro communist government. He was the main organizer of a series of Beatles conventions held in Cuba between 1996 and 1999, which culminated in December 2000 with the dedication of a life-size bronze statue of John Lennon in Havana’s John Lennon Park during a ceremony led by Castro and Cuban musical icon Silvio Rodríguez.

In July 2007, Ernesto Juan was part of the production team at the Live Earth concert at Wembley Stadium in London, which included acts such as Genesis, John Legend, Duran Duran, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Beastie Boys, The Pussycat Dolls, Foo Fighters, Madonna and many others. He has also worked as a fixer, producer, and location manager for international radio and film crews in Havana, most notably CNN (Jim Acosta), PBS (Ray Suarez), HD-Net, Al Jazeera, CBS, and the BBC (Michael Palin, Steve Leonard, Rhod Sharp, Simon Reeve).

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