Arts

Eric Romay

Born in La Habana

Francisco Pozo

Chino Pozo

Pozo said he was a cousin of Chano Pozo, although some doubted it

Arturo Elías Bonachet Huguet

Cuban clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, band director and music pedagogue

Beatriz Valdés Fidalgo

La Bella de la Alhambra

Theater, film and television actress, lead protagonist of the Cuban film "La bella del Alhambra"

Agustín Cárdenas Alfonso

He was born in Matanzas, a Cuban painter and sculptor who developed his most significant work in Europe

Mario Travieso Rodríguez

Outstanding Cuban tenor, a singer with exceptional vocal abilities who, after more than fifty years of artistic life, remains active

Miriam Esther Escudero Suástegui

Musicologist and professor of Harmony and Counterpoint at the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory in Havana

Manuel de Zequeira Arango

Izmael Raquenue, Ezequiel Armuna, Ezequiel Amura, Anselmo Erquea Gravina, Raquel Yum Zenea, El Observador de la Havana, El bruxo de la Havana, el Marqués Nueya, Arnezio Garaique, El Licenciado Freisesomorum, La horma de su zapato, Armenau Queizel, El crit

He is considered the first Cuban poet

Otto Chaviano Lleonart

Born in Cumanayagua, province of Cienfuegos

Alfredo Guevara

Cuban filmmaker and intellectual

Antonio María Taño López

Tony Taño

Composer and trumpeter

Eugenio Antonio Pedraza Ginori

Yin

He was born in Esperanza, Province of Villa Clara

Aniceto Valdivia

Conde Kostia

An illustrious writer, journalist, poet, critic, lecturer, playwright, and diplomat who, under the pseudonym Conde Kostia, revealed himself as one of the most interesting and representative figures of ...

Julio Antío Valdés Garmendía

Cobarde, El Caballo

Charismatic Cuban singer of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Julio Valdés, "Cobarde"

Armando Peraza

He is one of the most important and respected figures in the world of percussion

Mary Cruz

Born in Camagüey

Marcelino Guerra Abreu

Rapindey

He was born in the beautiful city of Cienfuegos

Rolando Baró Rivero

Pianist and orchestrator

Blanca Becerra Grela

Blanquita Becerra

Actress and singer

Mario Martínez-Casado Admas

Cuban actor of theater, radio, film and television, director and theatrical entrepreneur; performer of particular charisma, discoverer and trainer of young talents; figure remembered by theater audiences ...

Pedro Eduardo Hernández

He studied music at the Conservatorio «Amadeo Roldán» and graduated with a specialty in singing from the Escuela Nacional de Arte and the Instituto Superior de Arte

Dulcila Cañizares

Born in Santiago de las Vegas, she is a professor of piano, music theory, and solfège; she studied harmony, music history, and Italian

Gustavo Álvarez

He was born in Alacranes, Matanzas

David Rendón Malagamba

Cuban pianist who was also a Choir Director and repertoire specialist for prominent figures in Cuban culture

Juan Climaco Formell Cortina

Juan Formell, El Mozart de Cuba

National Music Prize Juan Formell, one of the most important figures in Cuban musical culture of the 20th and 21st centuries

Carlos Enríquez Gómez

Considered one of the greatest Cuban plastic artists of the first half of the past century, Carlos Enríquez was undoubtedly a rebel of the brush

Jesús Díaz

Renowned Cuban filmmaker and writer

Ana Aguado Andreu

La Calandria Cienfueguera

Soprano

Rafael Lahera

Felito

Outstanding Cuban actor with an extensive artistic career in Film, Theater, and Television

Joaquín Codina

Trovador Codina

Singer and Guitarist Codina, together with other troubadours, made known songs from the traditional songbook but moving away from the traditional form of bolero interpretation, imposing the style of self-accompanied ...

Ana Margarita Martínez-Casado Torralbas

Soprano and actress, descendant of a notable family of Cuban theater, daughter of Luis Manuel Martínez-Casado and Margot Torralbas and niece of the lyric tenor and actor Mario Martínez-Casado

Rigoberto Ferrera

Rigo

Humorist, outstanding theater actor and audiovisual media performer in Cuba

Osvaldo Salas

Salas is one of the photographers included in the tight group of creators of the so-called "Cuban epic photography," a singular creator who celebrates his centennial in 2014

Carmen Collado López

Graduated as Choral Director and Specialist in Pedagogical Methodology

Juan Rodolfo Amán Vargas

Stage Director of the National Lyric Theater of Cuba

Lidia Esperanza Magaz Jaime

Esperanza Magaz

Television, radio, and film actress, Cuban-Venezuelan

Verónica Lynn López Martínez

Doña Teresa

Prominent Cuban actress of theater, film and television

Emilia Bernal Agüero

Great lady of Cuban literature, poet who cultivated other genres such as essay, translation, and autobiographical novel

Luis Felipe Bernaza

Outstanding filmmaker, writer, poet, and playwright

Antonio Castells Trujillo

Castells, whom national memory has involuntarily relegated to oblivion, despite the brilliance he brought to his country with his extensive work, was, according to Núñez Rodríguez, one of the best sainete ...

Hilarión Cabrisas

Cuban poet and journalist

Margarita Pedroso

A young lady of Cuban aristocracy—daughter of the Marquises of San Carlos de Pedroso—had trained her voice in Italy with the famous baritone Cesare Badiali

Eugenio Rodríguez Rodríguez

Sculptor, Goldsmith Despite his brief artistic career spanning less than three decades of creation, Eugenio Rodríguez is also an indispensable name in the history of Cuban sculpture, perhaps because ...