Salvador Félix Alarcón Rodríguez
Musician, director of music bands, composer, arranger, and trainer of several generations of musicians
Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez
Aprendiz
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He was born in San Antonio de los Baños, province of La Habana, Cuba
Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida
Leo
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Brouwer, a renowned composer and considered among the five best living guitarists in the world, began playing guitar at the age of 13, attracted by the flamenco sound and motivated by his father, ...
Alexis Puentes
Alex Cuba
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Singer-songwriter Alex Cuba comes from Artemisa, Cuba and currently resides in Smithers, Canada
Arturo Sandoval
He began studying music at the age of 13
Dionisio Jesús Valdés Rodríguez
Chucho Valdés
Pianist, organist, composer and instrumentalist, Chucho Valdés is considered one of the best pianists in the world and certainly the most important jazz figure currently in Cuba
Pascasio Alonso Fajardo
Pacho Alonso
Excellent vocalist with extraordinary pitch, phrasing and perfect meter when singing
Francisco Fabián Céspedes Rodríguez
Francisco Céspedes, Pancho Céspedes
Pancho Céspedes knew from a very young age that he had to abandon his medical career to focus on what really made his blood flow: music
Alexis Valdés Gutiérrez
Cristinito
Actor, director, comedian, screenwriter, monologist, producer, composer, and performer, he is a complete showman with international projection
Francisco Leonel Amat Rodríguez
Pancho Amat, Pancho Manguaré
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Amat (Güira de Melena, La Habana, 1950) possesses an extensive musical career that has been enriched by his time with groups such as Manguaré, the orchestra Adalberto Álvarez y su son, and ...
Adalberto Cecilio Álvarez Zayas
El caballero del son
Composer, arranger and orchestra conductor Adalberto Álvarez is undoubtedly the quintessential Cuban son musician
Wilfredo Naranjo Verdecia
Pachy Naranjo
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Pachy was born in Manzanillo, his cultural and musical talent was so natural that at just 5 or 6 years of age he was already playing small piano pieces that Rolando La serie sang, such as "Moliendo ...
Amaury Pérez Vidal
Amaury
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At birth he is baptized before the cameras of CMQ Televisión, becoming the first baptism televised in Latin America
Miguel Ramón Demetrio Faílde Pérez
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Miguel Failde, one of our first popular musicians, was the Matanzas native who invented the danzón
Antonio Francisco Membiela
Ñico Membiela
Ñico was a town singer, and he achieved this precisely because of his peculiar way of performing the bolero, for being definitively one of the greats of the Cuban victrola, and for that combination he ...
José Marquetti
Cheo
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Singer with beautiful lyrical and expressive voice, creator of the guajira-son
Dionisio Ramón Emilio Valdés Amaro
Bebo Valdés, Caballón
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Interpreter of Cuban music and jazz, considered one of the central figures of the golden age of Cuban music
Ignacio Jacinto Villa Fernández
Bola de Nieve
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Bola was one of the most versatile singers that Caribbean music has produced
Leonardo González Abreu
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He was born in Laguna de Tenerife, Islas Canarias, but settled in Santiago de Cuba, where he died at the end of the 18th century
Esteban Salas Castro
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Composer, instrumentalist, singer, poet
Flores Chaviano
Flores Chaviano is one of the great figures of contemporary guitar
Francisco Fernández Tamayo
Frank Fernández, El poeta del teclado
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A towering figure of Cuban piano performance, he has been recognized by audiences and critics from 36 countries as a major force in world music
Guido López Gavilán del Rosario
Guido López-Gavilán is one of the most popular musicians of his generation
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
Boris Larramendi
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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
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
Danilo Avilés
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He began composition studies with Argeliers León
José Raul Bernardo Pérez
He is a true "Renaissance man," born in La Habana, Cuba
Ernán López-Nussa Lekszycki
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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
Adolfo P. Utrera
He was the eldest of ten siblings and very soon had to face life since his father died in 1922
Charles Abreu
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Pianist, composer, singer, teacher, arranger, concert performer
Eduardo Saborit Pérez
Distinguished Cuban musician and composer
Augusto Blanca Gil
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Composer and singer, founder of the Cuban Nueva Trova
Armando Oréfiche
Oréfiche nació en La Habana y logró una excelente formación musical a partir de las aulas de ese querido sitio durante muchos años conocido como Conservatorio Municipal de La Habana y honrado luego ...
Ignacio Piñeiro Martínez
Ignacio Piñeiro fue un verdadero cronista de la época en que le tocó vivir, fundó el Sexteto Nacional primero, que luego se convertiría en Septeto, el cual llega hasta la actualidad sin renunciar ...
Luis Casas Romero
Uno de los músicos más fecundos de Cuba, creador de la criolla
Rafael Inciarte Ruiz
Fue profesor y avezado intérprete de contrabajo, violín, violoncello, trombón, corneta, bombardino, y fundador de la Banda de Música del Estado Mayor del Ejército Oriental durante la guerra de Independencia ...
Julio Gonzalo González Fonseca
Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Gonzalito
Pianista y compositor de jazz cubano cuyo nombre artístico es Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Encuadrado en la era post-bop, Rubalcaba es un virtuoso instrumentista que está considerado como una de las principales ...
Guillermo Rubalcaba
Guillermo Rubalcaba
Es el director y fundador de la legendaria Charanga Rubalcaba
Claudio José Domingo Brindis de Salas Garrido
Brindis de Salas, El Paganini cubano, Barón de Salas, Rey de las Octavas
Claudio Brindis de Salas ha sido uno de los violinistas cubanos más famosos de todos los tiempos
Francisco de Jesús Rivera Figueras
Paquito D'Rivera
Músico cubano de jazz, clarinetista y saxofonista alto, tenor y soprano
Orlando Valle
Maracas
Nacido en Cuba y proveniente de una familia de músicos, estudia flauta desde los 10 años en los conservatorios Manuel Saumell y Amadeo Roldán, e ingresa el Instituto Superior de Artes de La Habana
Faustino Oramas Osorio
El Guayabero, «el juglar mayor de Cuba», «el rey del doble sentido»
Trovador popular, es reconocido como «el juglar mayor de Cuba» y alcanzó fama como «el rey del doble sentido» por su habilidad y gracia para hilvanar complejos relatos cantados en los que hacen gala ...
Fernando Borrego Linares
Polo Montañez, Guajiro Natural
La Historia de Polo Montañez, el Guajiro Natural
De origen campesino y humilde, con una formación musical autodidacta, se convirtió en uno de los símbolos musicales de Cuba en apenas 2 años
