Arts

Harold Gramatges Leyte-Vidal

One of the most illustrious Cuban creators in the field of academic music

Cipriano Justino Isidrón Torres

Chanito Isidrón, Rey del punto cubano,

Chanito Isidrón has been proclaimed King of Cuban Punto, a rhythm born in the mountains of Cuba, whom he cultivated in the decades of the 1940s and 1950s of the past century, in the radio fusion of the ...

Vicente González Castro

Doctor of Sciences accredited by the University of Costa Rica

Ismercy Salomón

Recognized Cuban actress who has a serious and admirable career in Cuban theater

Ana Aurora Díaz

Cuban mezzo-soprano and actress who is a founding member of the National Lyric Theater of Cuba

Federico Uhrbach Campuzano

Cuban poet, representative of modernism during the early years of the twentieth century

Alicia Rico

Cuban actress, one of the most original figures of Cuban vernacular theater

Federico Piñero Sopeira

Sopeira, el gallego

Born in Santa Clara

Isolda Miari

Descendant of an illustrious and long family of Cuban musicians of Italian origin: Alfonso Miari Bizzarri (1830-1906), flutist, born in Modena, Italy, settled in Cuba since 1856 (great-grandfather); Rafael ...

Francisco Poveda Armenteros

Trovador cubano

Cuban poet, called by his contemporaries the "Cuban troubadour"

Ángel Vázquez Millares

Vázquez Millares, in addition to the programs he hosts that are full of didacticism and good taste, possesses a vast history to tell about his work in the field of radio broadcasting

Agustín Rodríguez Castro

Agustín Rodríguez Castro was not only a prominent author, theater director and entrepreneur, but also distinguished himself as a screenwriter for Cuba's emerging sound cinema and lyricist of famous songs; ...

Aurelio Reinoso

He completed elementary musical studies

Eudaldo García Gómez

Aldo Lario

Founder of the National Lyric Theater of Cuba in 1962

Juan Espinosa Aguilar

Juanito Espinosa

Outstanding pianist

Edgardo Martín Cantero

Distinguished composer, piano student of Russian pianist Jascha Fischermann, studied piano pedagogy with César Pérez Sentenat and composition at the Conservatorio Municipal with José Ardévol

Francisco Fellove Valdéz

El Gran Fellove

A composer and singer naturalized Mexican, he is contemporary with personalities from the world of Cuban music such as El Niño Rivera, Tito Puente, Chico O´Farrill, Celia Cruz, Olga Guillot and Omara ...

Francisco Naya Ramos

Panchito

Francisco (Panchito) Naya is one of the indispensable personalities in the annals of Cuban lyric art

María Elena Molinet de la Peña

Stage designer, professor, essayist

Abdón Senén Suárez Hernández

Senén Suárez, el zurdo prodigioso

Outstanding composer, guitarist, arranger, and writer

María Luisa Enriqueta del Carmen Milanés García

She was born at the Hato Abajo farm (other researchers claim it was at the El Palmarito farm, which was later called El Sombrero and today belongs to the municipality of Cauto Cristo), daughter of the ...

Gaspar Villate

At sixteen years old, Gaspar Villate composed the opera "Angelo, tirano de Padua" based on the homonymous drama by Víctor Hugo

Francisco Manuel Domínguez Padrón

Frank Domínguez

Frank Domínguez Padrón Composer and pianist

Francisco Sellén

Almaviva

Francisco Sellén, who would become known as a translator of German and English poets

Miguel Angel Botalín Panpín

Founder and one of the most prominent artists of the Sociedad Cultural Galería, a collective of great importance in Cuban artistic and social life during the 1950s

Gualfredo Allué

Nené Allué

Born in Camagüey

Douglas Vistel

Cuban cellist who has resided in Germany for more than two decades, he is one of the instrumentalists invited to the V Leo Brouwer Chamber Music Festival

Eduardo Roca Salazar

Choco

Choco, artistic name of the renowned Cuban painter and engraver Eduardo Roca Salazar

Luis Carlos Soberón Valdés

Born in San Antonio de los Baños

Teodoro Ramos Blanco

Considered, along with Juan José Sicre, Ernesto Navarro and Florencio Gelabert, one of the initiators of the Cuban sculptural avant-garde and at the same time one of the most outstanding and talented ...

Oscar Jerome Hijuelos

Cuban-American novelist was the first Hispanic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Best Work of Fiction

Luis Manuel Pérez Boitel

He was born in the city of Remedios in 1969, of which city he is an illustrious son

Manuel González del Valle

Dorilo, El redactor, M. J., Juan Vasallo Caraciolo. El psicólogo, El frenólogo, El bayamés, Fray Gerundio habanero, El ontólogo

Cuban writer and professor

Amelia del Carmen Pita Vega

Amelita Pita

Known as Amelita Pita

Rosendo Ruiz Quevedo

Havana-born composer of songs and boleros such as Hasta mañana vida mía, No, ya no te puedo amar, Bibelot de chocolate, and very popular cha cha chás such as Rico vacilón, Los marcianos and Los fantasmas. He ...

José Zacarías González del Valle

El ecléctico, Otro, Tulio

Narrator, poet, professor, literary critic

Virgilio Piñera Llera

He was born in the city of Cárdenas, province of Matanzas

José Miguel Crego Castro

El Greco

Known artistically as El Greco, he was born on January 25, 1958

Félix Pita Rodríguez

Poet, narrator, essayist, playwright, journalist, literary critic, translator, radio and television writer

Pedro Gómez

Born in Pinar del Río, the lyric singer

Eduardo Ramos Montes

Composer, arranger, bass player and guitarist

Alberto Muguercia Muguercia

Researcher, musicologist and promoter

Elina Calvo

She studies singing with Daniel Marcos and makes her debut at the Teatro Lírico de Matanzas in 1975