Luz Gil

One of the most famous artists of Teatro Alhambra. Born in Veracruz, Mexico, 1894, she arrived in Cuba in 1913 and debuted at the aforementioned theater a few months later as a leading figure, where she remained continuously until 1920. She later returned to Regino's company on several occasions until 1924. Among her great successes, the following deserve to be highlighted: La danza de los millones, El rico hacendado, El Patria en La Habana, and La señorita de Maupin.

She also worked in Arquímedes Pous's company—teatro Payret, 1921 and teatro Cubano, 1923—. Upon her return from a tour of Spain and Central America, she joined Pepito Gomís's company, with Pous's repertoire (1929) and later the Cuban zarzuela company at teatro Martí (1935). She was considered the ideal artist to represent the mother in Cecilia Valdés in the homonymous zarzuela. As such she was the stage mother of Maruja González, Marta Pérez, Blanca Varela, Ana Margarita Martínez Casado, and many others.

In her last years she devoted herself to organizing performances for patients at the San Lázaro Leper Hospital, in El Rincón, on the outskirts of La Habana. A few months before her death, she was interviewed in the documentary Recuerdos de Alhambra.