Arts

Lieter Ledesma Alberto

Outstanding young Cuban actor with extensive work in Cuban film, theater, and television

Armando Suárez del Villar

Outstanding Professor of Performing Arts

Abelardo Barroso Dargelez

Caruso

A sonero of great lineage

Eduardo Morales Morales

An artist dedicated to landscape painting, especially those scenes where horse-drawn carriages or quitrines could be featured, which he executed with correct draftsmanship and pleasant coloring

René de la Cruz Ortiz

Renecito de la Cruz

Renecito de la Cruz

Alberto Pedro Torriente

Alberto Pedro

He was born in La Habana

Xiomara Lena Palacio Bello

She was born in Remedios, Villa Clara

Bartolomé Adolfo Llauradó Salmerón

Adolfo Llauradó

Born in Santiago de Cuba

Eglise Gutiérrez

Eglise Gutiérrez is a lyric coloratura soprano born in Holguín, Cuba who emigrated to Miami, United States

Joaquín Nin Castellanos

Cuban composer, pianist and musicologist, born Spanish, since Cuba was then part of Spain, of Spanish parents; his father was the writer Joaquín Nin i Tudó

Jesús Orta Ruiz

El Indio Naborí, Jesús Ribona, Juan Criollo, Martín de la Hoz.

Cuban poet, journalist, and literary researcher

Ignacio Herrera

Nachito

He was born in Cuba in Santa Clara, but received all his education in Ciudad de La Habana, at Cuba's music conservatories, Alejandro García Caturla, the National School of Art, ENA, and at the ISA, Instituto ...

Julio Acanda García

Acanda

Announcer and presenter in various informative spaces, he also has more than two decades of experience in journalistic and documentary production for Cuban Television, as well as in artistic direction ...

Rosario García Orellana

El ruiseñor cubano

Born in Madrid on October 2, 1905

Sergio Ángel Chaple Mesa

Cuban poet native of La Habana

José Luis Cortés González

El Tosco

Highly renowned flutist, arranger, composer, and music producer

Margarita Castro Valdés

Maggie Castro

She was a great star who illuminated Cuban radio

Gaspar Villate Montes

Arte, música, piano, órgano, compositor

Villate, whose musical contributions were evident in operas, zarzuelas, symphonic and chamber works, despite living only 40 years, had a truly intense musical career focused on opera, achieving recognized ...

Guillermo Manuel Tomás

To the musician, composer, and intellectual Guillermo Manuel Tomás belongs the merit of having been born on a glorious date in the historical annals of the Republic of Cuba, exactly on October 10, 1868, ...

Dinorah Argüelles

She studied singing with Zoila Gálvez, Nadja Aladjen, Ava Rogova and Mario Fernández and acting with Adolfo de Luis

Fermín Pedroso Sotomayor

Born in Pedro Betancourt, Matanzas

Aurelio Ernesto Ramón de la Vega Saavedra

Aurelio de la Vega

Composer and pedagogue, composer, lecturer, essayist and Cuban-American poet

Julián del Casal de la Lastra

Julián del Casal y de la Lastra was a Cuban poet and writer and one of the greatest exponents of modernism in Latin America He was born in La Habana, son of Julián del Casal y Ugareda, a native of Vizcaya, ...

Leopoldo Pérez Ulloa

Leopoldo Ulloa

Leopoldo Ulloa, one of the most recorded and sung composers in Cuba

Cirilo Villaverde de la Paz

El ambulante del Oeste, Un contemporáneo, Simón Judas de la Paz, Sansueñas

One of the most important Cuban novelists of the nineteenth century; journalist, teacher, and translator

Joel Angelino

Native of Sagua la Grande, Villaclara

Miguel Matamoros

Guitarist and composer

Isolina Carrillo Estrada

Cuban musician and composer

Manuel Valera

Manuel Valera is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, and composer who is at the forefront of contemporary modern jazz

Luis Pierce Byers

Luis Korda, Hemingway, Garbanzo

Better known as Luis Korda

Aurora de los Ángeles Bosch Fernández

Una de las Cuatro Joyas del Ballet

Ballet dancer and ballet instructor

Susana Pérez López

Charito

One of the great actresses of Cuba in the last 50 years

Orestes Lois Falcón

He was born in Palmira, Las Villas

Gregorio José Germán Piniella Vázquez de Mella

Germán Pinelli

Pinelli was born in La Habana

Manuel Mendive Hoyos

Manuel Mendive was born in the Luyanó neighborhood of Havana, Cuba

Calixto Callava

From childhood he immersed himself in the cultivation of rumba in his Belén neighborhood

Guillermo García

Musician in the band Chicago, Guillermo García played with Lennon, Ringo Starr, Stevie Wonder

Alberto Lescay Merencio

Sculptor, painter and draftsman with more than 25 years of artistic life

Rafael Luis Fornés Collado

A prominent Cuban comic strip cartoonist passed away at the age of 88 in Havana

Adelaida Diestro Rega

Aida Diestro

Outstanding Cuban pianist and director of choral groups

Roberto Tomás Valera Chamizo

Roberto Valera

He completed his musical studies at the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory in La Habana under the guidance of Leo Brouwer, José Ardévol and Edgardo Martín

Félix Chapotín Lage

Trumpet player and orchestra conductor, specialized in popular music such as Cuban son and guaracha

José Zacarías Tallet

José Zacarías Tallet, intimate friend and brother-in-law of Rubén Martínez Villena

Félix Guerrero

He was born in La Habana (Cuba)

Mario Ambrosio García Portela

Mario confesses that in his own birthland—with its spectacular landscapes and nature—he has found many sources of inspiration, and among them is discovered his journey through the multiple techniques ...

Pedro Nolasco Jústiz Rodríguez

Peruchín

Pedro Nolasco Jústiz Rodríguez alias "PERUCHIN"

Ángel Iñigo Blanco

An empirical artist by nature, self-taught, a primitivist of great significance in our country's culture

Julio Bartolomé Cueva Díaz

Cuban musician, composer of several works that were well-received by the population

Enrique González Mantici

Director, violinist and composer