Arts

Eloísa Álvarez Guedes

Simplisia, Valeria

Eloísa began as an amateur actress in Unión de Reyes, Matanzas

Lienz Chang Oliva

He began his studies at age 10 at the School of Art in the Province of Matanzas; at age 15 he started at the National School of Art in the City of Havana and three years later he joined the dance corps ...

Mario Antonio Cimarro Paz

Mario Cimarro

===BODY=== He was born in Havana, Cuba, in the heart of a humble but very united family that encouraged him from the very beginning when he started considering his career as an actor, fascinated by Marlon ...

María Concepción Alonso Bustillo

María Conchita Alonso

María Conchita was born in Cuba

Eva Mendes

Eva was born in the Texan city of Houston but moved early to Miami (Florida); she is a descendant of Cuban parents

Emerio Medina Peña

Outstanding Cuban writer

Carlos Victoriano Varela Cerezo

Carlos Varela, el Gnomo

Carlos Varela is someone who sings the reality of Cuban youth with their "defects and virtues"; his music and work are the most representative of the so-called newest Cuban troubadour movement

Manuel Hernández Valdés

Manuel

Cuban plastic artist, dedicated mainly to caricature, painting with peasant themes and ceramics

María Teresa Vera

===BODY=== At a very early age she began to make herself known in bohemian and trova circles

Reinaldo Arenas Fuentes

Cuban novelist whose early work was part of the Latin American boom narrative, and whose latest productions are a painful and satirical testimony of his life, as in Before Night Falls (1992)

María de los Àngeles Santana Soravilla

La Alcaldesa, Remigia

===BODY=== She began in 1933 as an actress in cinema, hired by Películas Cubanas S

Samuel Feijoó Rodríguez

He was born in San Juan de las Yeras

Emilio Luis Escobar Loret de Mola

He was born in Lima, Peru, to a Peruvian father and Cuban mother

Dulce María Borrero Piedra

An outstanding fighter for women's rights

Víctor Patricio Landaluze Uriarte

A humorous illustrator and genre painter, Spanish by birth with work of authentically Cuban theme, who captured the types and popular scenes of colonial society in the second half of the nineteenth century. He ...

Yudit Vidal Faife

===BODY=== Recognized contemporary Cuban visual artist with national and international fame

Boris Larramendi

===BODY=== He was born in Havana, his father plays guitar from Los Panchos to Silvio Rodriguez, passing through The Beatles and El Trio Matamoros, his uncle Luis dances in the university's comparsa, meanwhile, ...

Eduardo Martín Pérez

He studied guitar with maestro Jesús Ortega and composition with maestros Ángel Vázquez Millares and Alfredo Dieznieto

Daniel Edmundo Chavarría Bastélica

Daniel Chavarría

He was born in San José, Uruguay

Nara Mansur Cao

===BODY=== Poet, author of materials for the stage, theater critic, editor, and cultural promoter

Luis Miguel Valdés Morales

===BODY=== Born in Cuba and based in Mexico since 1991, Luis Miguel is one of the artists who has most supported both the creation and dissemination of printmaking in Mexico, Cuba, and other countries, ...

Alina Fernández Revuelta

Alina is the daughter of Natalia Revuelta Clews and Fidel Castro Ruz She was born in Cuba in 1956, the result of the relationship that Fidel Castro maintained with Nati Revuelta

Enrique Jorrín Oleaga

Cuban musician, composer, violinist, and orchestra conductor, creator of the cha-cha-cha

Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz

Compay Segundo

Compay Segundo was the oldest and most famous trovador in the world

José Antonio Plana

Tony Plana

His father, Pepe, and his mother, Conchita, both Cuban, moved to Culver City, California, when Tony was a child

Héctor Zumbado

H Zumbado

Narrator and journalist

Aida Zertucha Palma

===BODY=== Music Methodologist at the Provincial Center of Culture Houses of Ciudad de La Habana

José Luis Zamorano

One of the most interesting personalities within the new generation of Cuban dancers

María Matilde Alea Fernández

Composer, pianist, and Cuban Doctor of Pedagogy born in Camajuaní, province of Las Villas; in the same year 1918 she moved with her family to Pinar del Río

Danilo Avilés

===BODY=== He began composition studies with Argeliers León

José Raul Bernardo Pérez

He is a true "Renaissance man," born in La Habana, Cuba

Lissette Álvarez Chorens

Reina de los ritmos ye-yé

Born in Lima, Peru, she is a Cuban-Puerto Rican singer, composer, and actress

Hilda Saavedra Tuero

Lawyer by profession, but artist by nature

Israel López

Cachao

===BODY=== Known simply as "Cachao", he was a Cuban musician and composer

Ernán López-Nussa Lekszycki

===BODY=== An essential Latin American pianist of recent times, he labels and draws the sound of a country that expresses itself and is nourished by music

Vicente Escobar Flores

Cuban painter who cultivated, above all, the portrait genre and enjoyed a solid reputation in his time

Jorge Camacho

Jorge Camacho is an established Cuban artist who works in a surrealist style

Cándido Camero

Cándido

Cuban percussionist who plays fundamentally congas and bongó

Manuel Alfredo Sosa Bravo

Sosabravo

===BODY=== Ceramicist, painter, and engraver

Sandú Darié Laver

He was born in Romania but became a naturalized Cuban citizen from the mid-1940s

Efraín Loyola Fernández

Efraín Loyola, Cuba's longest-active flutist, passed away in Cienfuegos at the age of 94 due to pulmonary thromboembolism, a talkative and fraternal person, very popular not only as a musician but also ...

Rufo Caballero

He is an essayist, art critic and audiovisual media critic

Héctor Quintero Viera

Actor, Director, Playwright and Narrator, he began his artistic work from childhood in radio, television and, later, theater

Rolando Valdés Blaín

He was born in Havana Cuba in 1922, and as a child his family emigrated to New York, the place where he went to live at the end of his life

Roberto Fabelo Pérez

===BODY=== He was born in Camagüey, on a farm on the outskirts of Guáimaro

José Mariano Manuel Rodríguez Álvarez

Mariano Rodríguez, pintor de los gallos

===BODY=== Mariano is the fifth of eight siblings: six females and two males

Dolores Soldevilla Nieto

Loló Soldevilla

She is one of the most important representatives of the geometric abstract movement and kinetic art

Juana Borrero Pierra

Cuban poet and painter from the late nineteenth century

Yumar Bonachea Rodríguez

El Yuma

He was born in the city of Sancti Spíritus, more recognized for its typical colonial atmosphere and for being the cradle of the trovadores

Roberto Ruiz Rebó

El cantor de “Los Sueños Azules y las cosas cotidianas”

Words flow deliciously and dissolve within the cadenced music that, to the rhythm of guitars and percussion, are introduced by a flute that enchants with its soft and sensual melody