Luis Bayard Bacaró
Flutist and Concertist
Fernando Álvarez
Cuban singer
Reinaldo Montesinos Muñoz
Rey Montesinos
Important and versatile Cuban musician, guitarist and orchestrator
Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré Gutiérrez
Benny Moré, El Bárbaro del Ritmo, El Sonero Mayor de Cuba, El Príncipe del Mambo
Known as Benny Moré or El Bárbaro del Ritmo or El Sonero Mayor de Cuba, he was a Cuban singer and composer
Francisco Emilio Flynn Rodríguez
Frank Emilio
From childhood he began playing piano without knowing a single musical note, guided by his prodigious ear
Mercedes Matamoros del Valle
Ofelia, La poetisa del dolor, La alondra ciega
Distinguished Cuban writer and poetess
Juan Clemente Zenea Fornaris
Adolfo de la Azucena, Espejo del corazón, Ego quoque,***, Un amigo de la juventud, Una habanera
Cuban writer recognized for having exerted great influence on Cuban literature by reviving Romanticism, marking a new line in Hispanic American poetry
Charles Flores
The career of Grammy Award-winning bassist Charles Flores began in Cuba in 1989 with Cuban jazz singer and composer Bobby Carcasses
Rolando Laserie Rodríguez
El guapo de la canción, El Guapachoso
He was born in Matas, Santa Clara, and was the youngest of eight siblings
Gilda Hernández Rico
Actress and founder, together with her son Sergio Corrieri, of the Teatro Escambray Group
Radeunda Lima Caso
Radeúnda Lima was born in the small town of Vueltas, municipality of Camajuaní, in the central region of the country and a stronghold of rural traditions, becoming one of the major figures throughout ...
Rogelio Martínez Furé
Cuban Africanist and folklorist
Roberto Arturo Carcassés Cuza
Bobby Carcassés, el último gurú del jazz cubano
Composer and performer of Cuban popular music
Severo Alberto Borges Abreu
Lino Borges, La voz del bolero
He was one of the great voices of Cuban bolero, a product of Batabanó who sang for more than half a century
Orestes López Valdés
Born in La Habana
Ignacio de Loyola Rodríguez Scull
Arsenio Rodríguez, El ciego maravilloso
He was born in Güira de Macurijes, Matanzas, and was a Cuban tres composer and performer who played an important role in the development of the so-called son montuno
Norman Milanés Moreno
He was born in Jiguaní, former province of Oriente, and is a composer and musical director
Mayda Galano Guilarte
She was born in Baracoa, Cuba, where, as a young child, her mother introduced her to the practice of music, to which she dedicates her life
Viredo Espinosa
Viredo
Viredo Espinosa, who as an artist would use only his first name, was born the eldest of three brothers in 1928, in Regla, a small town across the bay from La Habana
Ernestina Lecuona Casado
She was born in the city of Matanzas, where she spent her first childhood years
Rafael Palau León
Composer, pianist, organist and orchestra director
Leonardo Lara
He began his career in the arts in 1983, as part of the Theater Group "Olga Alonso", where he studied acting with professor Humberto Rodríguez and participated in the stagings of Andoba (Adoba and Guillermo), ...
Héctor Angulo
Composer
Esther Borja Pérez
La Damisela encantadora
Esther Borja, considered one of the main voices of Cuba in the twentieth century
Lorenzo Hierrezuelo La O
Composer, guitarist and singer
Alina Sánchez Rodríguez
She is a Cuban soprano singer residing in Spain
René de la Nuez Robaina
Plastic artist, journalist, professor, humorist and cartoonist
René Marquéz Rojo
Musician, composer, and singer with a distinguished musical career in Cuba since the 1930s
Antonio María Romeu Marrero
Renowned Cuban pianist, composer, and orchestra director
Bárbara Llanes Zertucha
Excellent singer, pianist, composer, and arranger
Mayda Prado Alfonso
Cuban-American soprano Mayda Prado carries out the work in Cuernavaca of transmitting to new generations of singers the knowledge she has acquired through great teachers such as María Callas
Dámaso Pérez Prado
Rey del Mambo,
Dámaso Pérez Prado (Matanzas, Cuba, December 11, 1916 - Mexico City, September 14, 1989), the "King of Mambo", was a Cuban musician, composer, and arranger
Gisela Hernández Gonzalo
Composer, pedagogue, choral director and researcher
Alice Dana Plasencia
Singer (soprano), pedagogue and composer
Humberto Solás Borrego
Humberto Solás
An emblematic figure of Cuban cinema and Spanish-language cinematography
Luis Alberto García Novoa
Popular Cuban actor with one of the most solid acting careers in Cuba of all time
Lilia Jilma Madera Valiente
Celebrated creator of Cuban visual art
