Arts | Cuban Famous

Arturo Agramonte García

Camagüey

Cuban filmmaker collaborator of the late Mexican filmmaker Emilio "El Indio" Fernández He began his film career in the 1940s as a directing assistant to Juan Orol, a director of rumbera films, in the ...

Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez

Aprendiz

===BODY=== He was born in San Antonio de los Baños, province of La Habana, Cuba

Fernando Pérez Valdés

Bachelor's degree in Hispanic Language and Literature from the University of La Habana

Úrsula Hilaria Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso

Celia Cruz

Celia Cruz was born in La Habana, she was the second daughter of four siblings

Doralina de la Caridad Alonso Pérez

Dora Alonso

===BODY=== Notable children's literature writer for whom she obtained the Casa de las Américas Award in Children's Literature, in 1988 she receives the National Prize for Literature

Alberto Julio Alonso Rayneri

Alberto Alonso

Choreographer, dancer and master of Cuban ballet

Barbarito Diez Junco

La Voz de Oro del Danzón

===BODY=== He was born in Bolondrón, Matanzas, exactly in a sugar mill already demolished that was called San Rafael de Jorrín, where Salustiana del Junco y de la Mercedes gave birth to Bárbaro Diéz ...

Armando Fernández Soler

Cholito

===BODY=== For many Cubans the name Armando Fernández Soler does not achieve identification with its bearer

Arquímedes Pous

El negrito

Cuban actor, author and theatrical entrepreneur

René Francisco Rodríguez Hernández

René Francisco

This person from Holguín has distinguished work in collective art projects, outstanding pedagogical service, and above all, remarkable artistic work throughout a career with broad recognition in Cuba ...

Jorge Perugorría Rodríguez

Pichi

===BODY=== Pichi was born in Havana in the Wajay, Boyeros municipality, Havana, where he spent his childhood and adolescence

Julio García Espinosa

Founder of the Cuban Institute of Film Art and Industry (ICAIC), an organization he directed for eleven years

Ana Celia de Armas Caso

Ana de Armas, la Carolina del Internado

===BODY=== Cuba's national theater school had the privilege of welcoming Ana de Arma at fourteen years old, whose first cinematic success came with the film A Rose from France, which she starred in alongside ...

Niurka González Núñez

===BODY=== Flauta Virtuosa - Niurka González & María del Henar Navarro She began her musical studies at the "Manuel Saumell" Conservatory in 1989 with professors Luisa M

José María Heredia

Poeta nacional, Poeta del Niágara

Heredia was and is called the "national poet" of Cuba, although in reality he lived almost his entire life away from his beloved Island

Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera

===BODY=== Professor, novelist essayist and poet

Emilio Estefan

Of Lebanese descent, he is a musician and producer based in the United States who is today one of the most influential Latin personalities in the world of entertainment at an international level

José María Andrés Fernando Lezama Lima

Lezama Lima

Cuban poet, narrator and essayist, he is one of the most significant writers of Latin American literature of the present century

Vladimir Cruz

He began in theater at fifteen years old as an amateur actor and at seventeen was already studying at the Instituto Superior de Arte de La Habana, where he graduated as a Bachelor of Performing Arts in ...

Alejo Carpentier Valmont

He was a Cuban novelist and narrator who notably influenced Latin American literature during his famous period of prominence

Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez

Korda, Alberto Korda

He is famous for the celebrated photograph taken of Ernesto Ché Guevara during the funeral procession of the victims of the explosion of the ship Le Couvre, on March 5, 1960, which according to great ...

Amaury Pérez Vidal

Amaury

===BODY=== At birth he is baptized before the cameras of CMQ Televisión, becoming the first baptism televised in Latin America

Dolores María Ximeno Cruz

===BODY=== She belonged to a wealthy family from Matanzas

Zenaida Armenteros Calvo

Orisha de la danza

===BODY=== Dancer, singer and teacher of the purest Afro-Cuban traditions, she was born in Ciudad de la Habana in a humble working-class family

Odilio Urfe Gonzalez

===BODY=== Born in Madruga, province La Habana this musicologist, pianist, professor and conductor

Antonio Francisco Membiela

Ñico Membiela

Ñico was a town singer, and he achieved this precisely because of his peculiar way of performing the bolero, for being definitively one of the greats of the Cuban victrola, and for that combination he ...

Vicente Valdés Valdés

Vicentico Valdés

He was born in the legendary neighborhood of Cayo Hueso, cradle of many artists and traditions

José Marquetti

Cheo

===BODY=== Singer with beautiful lyrical and expressive voice, creator of the guajira-son

Dionisio Ramón Emilio Valdés Amaro

Bebo Valdés, Caballón

===BODY=== Interpreter of Cuban music and jazz, considered one of the central figures of the golden age of Cuban music

Romana Elena Burguez González

Elena Burke, La Señora Sentimiento

===BODY=== Revered and popular Cuban singer of boleros and romantic ballads

Freddy Artiles Machado

===BODY=== Playwright, researcher, theater advisor, critic and professor born in the city of Santa Clara

Antón Arrufat Mrad

His demeanor resembles the stereotype of a Catholic seminarian, with that ecstatic bearing of exasperating self-sufficiency

Manuel Ochoa Ochoa

===BODY=== He began his studies with his mother Caridad Ochoa, who was an excellent Opera singer graduated from the Royal Conservatory of San Fernando de Cadiz, the place where Manuel de Falla studied ...

Flores Chaviano

Flores Chaviano is one of the great figures of contemporary guitar

Roberto Nápoles Castillo

Rey del Contrabajo, El Contrabajo que baila, Azabache

Nápoles, who at 99 years of age was considered Cuba's longest-lived musician, the so-called King of the Double Bass, passed away when he was only four months short of turning 100 years old

José Manuel Villa Castillo

Villita

Graphic Designer-Set Designer-Interior Designer-Film Art Director

Francisco Fernández Tamayo

Frank Fernández, El poeta del teclado

===BODY=== A towering figure of Cuban piano performance, he has been recognized by audiences and critics from 36 countries as a major force in world music

Loipa Yolanda Araujo Carruana

Una de las cuatro bailarinas históricas del ballet cubano conocidas como «las cuatro joyas».

===BODY=== Cuban dancer; professor and ballet maître

Guido López Gavilán del Rosario

Guido López-Gavilán is one of the most popular musicians of his generation

Yanitsia Canetti

Graduate in Journalism from the Universidad de la Habana, with a Master's degree in Linguistics and a Doctorate in Latin American Literature

Enrique Arredondo

Bernabé

===BODY=== The Cuban actor Enrique Arredondo left behind a trail of admiration earned through his remarkable performances on the stage, in cinema, and on national radio and television