Madonna celebrated her 58th birthday
Tuesday in Havana, dancing to Cuban beats during a night on the town and
drawing crowds as she toured the city.
The Material Girl’s visit got a write-up
in the Cuban Communist party’s official newspaper, Granma, which
reported that she “toured different city squares to start the first day
of her visit, which will last until Wednesday.”
It said the US pop superstar was in Cuba
with her eldest daughter, Lourdes, a 19-year-old model whose father is
Cuban dancer and fitness trainer Carlos Leon.
American photographer Steven Klein and stylists B. Akerlund and Andy Lecompte are traveling with them, it said.
Madonna posted a picture of herself to
her Twitter account with the caption “Cuba Libre.” It shows her wearing a
revealing black dress with yellow flowers and smiling as she tips a
black hat.
Videos posted online by fans show her
dressed in the same outfit strolling through the streets of Old Havana
and dancing to Cuban beats at a restaurant in the historic city center
as onlookers cheer.
The news site Cubadebate said Madonna was planning a “big party” Tuesday with the “rhythms and flavors” of Cuba.
Madonna is the latest in a string of US
celebrities to visit Cuba since its historic rapprochement with
long-time enemy the United States was announced in December 2014.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Katy
Perry, Kanye West, Usher, Paris Hilton, and Kim, Khloe and Kourtney
Kardashian have all toured the Caribbean island recently.
US citizens are still officially banned
from traveling to Cuba as tourists under the embargo Washington has
maintained on Havana since the 1960s.
But President Barack Obama’s
administration has loosened travel restrictions, enabling more Americans
to make the trip under permitted categories such as “cultural
exchanges.”
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