Arts

Miriam Bayard

Miriam Bayard is a talented and original Cuban singer, professional musician, educator, theater and television actress born in Havana on December 7, 1944 and a resident of the Mexican Republic since 1991, ...

Lázaro Reynaldo Rodríguez

Cuban painter based in Mexico since 1991, the year he arrived in this country invited to hold a three-person exhibition at a gallery called Qualy

Juan Antonio Molina Cuesta

===BODY=== Bachelor's degree in Art History from the Universidad de La Habana

Ernesto López Sao

Studies Completed 1994-1997: Instituto Superior de Diseño Industrial (ISDI), La Habana, Cuba

Gabriel Hernández Cadenas

He began his studies at age 7 at the "Luis Casas Romero" conservatory in Camagüey, Cuba

Germán Lázaro Rodríguez López

Director of the Nueva Sonora Matancera de Colombia made up of Cuban and Colombian musicians with recognized careers

Adolfo P. Utrera

He was the eldest of ten siblings and very soon had to face life since his father died in 1922

Genoveva Herrera Martínez

Genevieve Her

===BODY=== Cuban born in Camagüey and raised in Havana

Rubén Darío Salazar Taquechel

Founder and general director of Teatro de las Estaciones, a puppet theater group from Matanzas with an intense creative trajectory

Charles Abreu

===BODY=== Pianist, composer, singer, teacher, arranger, concert performer

Ernesto Fundora Hernández

He studied guitar as a child, then completed his degree in film, radio and TV direction at the Instituto Superior de Arte of Ciudad de La Habana and subsequently graduated from the Escuela Internacional ...

Rosa Cruz

She was born in the remote town of Regla in Ciudad de la Habana

Ivette Cepeda

===BODY=== A teacher by profession, Ivette Cepeda was drawn to singing from a young age, but starting in the 1990s she began her career as a soloist in tourist centers in the Cuban capital

Haydeé Arteaga Rojas

Señora de los Cuentos

Outstanding Cuban narrator, writer, reciter

Liuba María Hevia

===BODY=== Guitarist, composer, and performer

Eduardo Saborit Pérez

Distinguished Cuban musician and composer

Jamila Castillo Carballea

Jamila Purofilin

She is from Havana; born in the La Víbora neighborhood, on Carmen Street near Juan Delgado Park

Electo Rosell Horrutiner

Chepín

His first music teacher was his father, guitarist José Rosell

Abelardo José Estorino López

===BODY=== Abelardo José Estorino López (1925)

Alfonso Hernández Catá

Sociedad, periodista

===BODY=== Narrator, journalist, essayist and diplomat

Anibal Samón Domínguez

Anibal de Mar, Filomeno, El Tremendo Juez

===BODY=== Aníbal de Mar, 1908-1980)

Telmary Díaz Fernández

Rapera cubana

Telmary became known as a member of the rap group Free Hole Negro, and later for her work alongside singer-songwriter William Vivanco, eventually becoming one of the central figures of the Interactivo ...

Gerardo Mosquera

===BODY=== Resides in Havana

Armando Morales Riverón

Puppet actor, designer, and artistic director of Cuban puppet theater

Augusto Blanca Gil

===BODY=== Composer and singer, founder of the Cuban Nueva Trova

Bartolomé Crespo Borbón

El Anfibio, El Lindoro, La Sirena Cubana, La Cotorra-gente, Creto Gangá

===BODY=== Costumbrista writer and playwright

Erdwin Juventino Fernández Sánchez

Erdwin Fernández, Trompoloco, Simplicio

Cuban actor in radio, television, film, and circus

Federico Villoch Vázquez

El Lope de Vega criollo, Cascabel

Journalist, playwright, Cuban theatrical entrepreneur

Leopoldo Eugenio Hernández Espinosa

He is one of the most relevant contemporary Cuban playwrights

Armando Oréfiche

===BODY=== Oréfiche was born in La Habana and achieved an excellent musical education from the classrooms of that beloved place, known for many years as the Conservatorio Municipal de La Habana and later ...

María Felicia Pérez Arroyo

For her knowledge of music, her general culture, her beautiful soprano voice and her artistic mastery, she ranks today as one of the most important choir directors of our time

Leopoldo Augusto Fernández Salgado

José Candelario Tres Patines, Pototo

===BODY=== Comic actor; one of the famous "negritos" of the Cuban stage and creator of the popular characters "José Candelario Tres Patines" and "Pototo"

Mario García Joya

Mayito

Born in Santa María del Rosario, Havana, Cuba (1938)

Ignacio Piñeiro Martínez

===BODY=== Ignacio Piñeiro was a true chronicler of the era in which he lived

Luisa Pérez Montes de Oca

Luisa Pérez de Zambrano, «la más insigne elegíaca de nuestras líricas»

===BODY=== Cuban writer of the nineteenth century, one of the most distinguished representations of romanticism in Cuban literature

María Julia García

She studied music at the Conservatorio «Amadeo Roldán», where she had Zoila Gálvez as her voice teacher

Daniel Marcos Martínez Ravento

Daniel Marcos

===BODY=== He was born in Marianao, a city in Havana, his childhood was peaceful, always with family alongside his parents

Juan Emilio Hernández Giró

From thirteen years of age he showed his passion for art, his first teachers being his father Rodolfo Hernández Soleliac and the Frenchman Luis Oscar Marisy

Mariana Catalina Morejón León

Marianita Morejón

===BODY=== She was born on February 13, 1939

Onelio Jorge Cardoso

Cuentero mayor

===BODY=== He was born in Calabazar de Sagua, a small town in the center of the Island, belonging to the former province of Las Villas, on May 11, 1914

Dulce María Serret Danger

===BODY=== Pianist and teacher born in Santiago de Cuba, she received her first music lessons in her native land

Miguel Angel Ortiz

===BODY=== He began his career as a Cuban song interpreter in 1939, on radio stations

Emiliano Gaspar Rodríguez

He was educated in the United States and in La Habana

Juan Francisco Calcagno Monzón

Francisco Calcagno

===BODY=== Pedagogue, journalist, translator, anthologist, lecturer, biographer, essayist, poet and, above all, prolific Cuban novelist

Claudio José Domingo Brindis de Salas Garrido

Brindis de Salas, El Paganini cubano, Barón de Salas, Rey de las Octavas

===BODY=== Claudio Brindis de Salas has been one of the most famous Cuban violinists of all time

Orlando Valle

Maracas

Born in Cuba and coming from a family of musicians, he studied flute from age 10 at the Manuel Saumell and Amadeo Roldán conservatories, and entered the Superior Institute of Arts of La Habana