Mauricio Lomonte

Mauricio Alberto Lomonte Suárez (born 10 June 1982), known professionally as Mauricio Lomonte, is a Cuban radio announcer and television host.

Lomonte started his broadcasting career in 2000 and later branched into television as host. He currently works for various radio stations such as Radio Reloj, Radio Taíno and Radio Progreso. Although he is mainly recognized among the Cuban public for hosting and presenting the television program “De la Gran Escena” since 2014.

Mauricio Lomonte was born in Havana. He is of Italian descent on his father's side (that is the origin of his surname, Lomonte).

Until the age of one, Lomonte lived with his parents in the Havana municipality of Cerro, then he went to live with his grandmother, who raised and took care of him until he became an adult.

As he said in an interview, he learned to read since a very young age, even then he played at being an announcer without knowing what he was doing, and he always had a very good diction. However, he never participated on school's acts because he was and still is very shy.

It was his grandmother who told Lomonte that his mother had once taken the announcer's tests and had passed them. On the other hand, his father, who immigrated to the United States, told him many times that he is a frustrated announcer.

He attended high school in a boarding school, in the late 1990s, during the time when the Cuban educational system promoted the mandatory program called “pre-university boarding schools in the country side” (currently not applicable) for those who wanted to obtain a high school's degree.

Lomonte was only 17 years old when Tony Reytor, a voice over professional working for the COCO broadcasting station, told him: “Boy, you should exploit that voice of yours”. That's how he started working as an assistant of direction in that radio station, although without approaching a microphone whatsoever.