Arts

Pedro Knight Caraballo

\\"Cabecita de Algodón\\", \\"Perucho\\"

He was born in Matanzas, joined the renowned Cuban group Sonora Matancera as second trumpeter on January 6, 1944, and together with trumpeter Calixto Leicea, who has since passed away, they thrilled many ...

Helio Orovio

Researcher, musicologist and journalist

Rembert Egües

Son of flutist Richard Egües

Ruperto Jay Matamoros

Native of San Luis, Santiago de Cuba

Gonzalo Arsenio

Tio Tom

From the age of fifteen he created unsurpassable guaguancós, among which "Me regaña el corazón" and "Los cubanos son rareza", "Chango vá vení", "Una chambelona", "Donde están los cubanos", "Consuélate ...

Jorge González Allué

Pianist, composer and orchestra conductor, he was born in Camagüey

Rosalía Lourdes Elisa Palet Bonavia

Rosita Fornés, Rosita, La Vedette de Cuba

Actress, singer, and vedette

Silvia Maritza Rosales Pomares

Maritza Rosales

Radio, television, and film actress

Faustino de Jesús Nicolás Ruiz Espadero

Nicolás Ruiz Espadero

Composer and virtuoso pianist

Manuel Cofiño López

Cuban narrator, poet, and literary researcher

Luis Martínez Griñán

Lilí Martínez, la perla de Oriente

He began his musical studies with his sister Ana Emilia Martínez Griñán, who was among the 40 students of the Music Branch "Nicolás Ruíz Espadero", taught by professor Concepción "Conchita" Bravo ...

Miriam Rodríguez Hernández

Cuban writer of children's literature

Beatriz Márquez Castro

La Musicalísima

Singer, composer, and pianist

Francisco Javier Balmaseda

He was born in San Juan de los Remedios, today in the province of Villa Clara, on March 31, 1823

Carmelina Santana Reyes

Lyric soprano and professor

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

G. Caín,

Novelist, critic, essayist, journalist, and film screenwriter

Ángel José Arango Rodríguez

One of the pioneers of Cuban science fiction

Pedro Buenaventura Jesús Junco Redondas

Pedro Junco

Composer Pedro Junco was born in the city of Pinar del Río, the same man who died at only 23 years old, not before having earned the affection of admirers of his musical work, among which are anthological ...

Argeliers León Pérez

Musicologist, composer, ethnologist and pedagogue, considered the "father of Cuban musicology"

René Portocarrero

One of the leading figures in Cuban plastic arts

Fidel Betancourt

He was born in Santiago de Cuba

Rafaela Chacón Nardi

Cuban poet and renowned pedagogue, she accumulated more than 30 titles, deserving of the Alejo Carpentier medal for her work, in addition to other distinctions

Mariano Brull Caballero

A representative poet of Cuban avant-gardism in the 1930s

Modesto Fraga Guash

Cuban flutist, pedagogue, and composer

Blanca Rosa Blanco Azcuy

She is one of the most popular Cuban actresses of the first decade of the 21st century in Cuba

Amado José del Pino González

He was born in Tamarindo, in the current municipality of Florencia, Ciego de Ávila

Severo Felipe Sarduy Aguilar

Narrator, poet, essayist, man of theater and radio, he was a versatile artist and one of the fundamental figures of the so-called Latin American postboom

Luz Gil

One of the most famous artists of Teatro Alhambra

José Juan Nicolás Ramón Arrom González

José Juan Arrom

Professor, researcher and Cuban essayist of great prestige

Waldo Díaz

Soloist of the Teatro Lírico Nacional de Cuba

Graciano Gómez Vargas

Performer, composer, flutist and guitarist

Pablo Armando Fernández Pérez

One of the great contemporary Cuban writers

Sergio Corrieri Hernández

David, Alberto Delgado

Cuban actor and theatrical director

Pura Ortiz Arteaga

Distinguished Cuban pianist and pedagogue

Víctor Casaus Sánchez

Poet, filmmaker, narrator and journalist

Antonio Silvano Suárez Sánchez

Silvano Suárez

Screenwriter of novels and adventures, outstanding director of Cuban television and theater, essayist and short story writer

Celina González Zamora

\\"Queen of Cuban Country Music\\", Reina del punto guajiro

Outstanding interpreter of Cuban peasant music

Fabio Armando Landa Calvet

Composer, cellist, guitarist and orchestra conductor

Alberto Joya

Graduate of the Conservatorio Superior de Música de La Habana, completing his piano degree with the highest grades

Osdalgia Lesmes Echevarría

Osdalgia, La Nueva Voz de Cuba, la ¨doña¨

Osdalgia

Clara Morales Vicente

Dúo Clara y Mario, dúo romántico de Cuba

Clara began singing as a duet with Mario from childhood

Enrique Núñez Rodríguez

Enrique Nuñez Rodríguez was an innate communicator, an authentic Cuban, a profound intellectual and a talented artist

Rafael Bacallao Hernández

Felo Bacallao

Singer, composer, and stellar dancer, he was for 34 years the main attraction of the eighty-year-old Orquesta Aragón

Renée Méndez Capote

La cubanita que nació con el siglo, Suzanne, Berenguelae Io-san

Cuban journalist and writer, known as "The little Cuban girl who was born with the century," as she described herself in her memoirs

Juan Manuel José Bonifacio Víctor de la Caridad Arrondo Suárez

Juan Arrondo

Although he was born in Guanabacoa, he was registered in the neighboring overseas town of Regla, Ciudad de La Habana; but he moved to Guanabacoa at the age of 3 years, to the house located at José Martí ...

Waldo Leyva Portal

Writer, journalist, and poet