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
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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 ...
Ignacio Piñeiro Martínez
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Ignacio Piñeiro was a true chronicler of the era in which he lived
Luis Casas Romero
One of Cuba's most prolific musicians, creator of the criolla
Rafael Inciarte Ruiz
He was a professor and skilled interpreter of double bass, violin, cello, trombone, cornet, euphonium, and founder of the Musical Band of the General Staff of the Eastern Army during the War of Independence ...
Julio Gonzalo González Fonseca
Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Gonzalito
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Cuban jazz pianist and composer whose stage name is Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Framed within the post-bop era, Rubalcaba is a virtuoso instrumentalist who is considered one of the main figures of Afro-Cuban ...
Guillermo Rubalcaba
Guillermo Rubalcaba
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He is the director and founder of the legendary Charanga Rubalcaba
Claudio José Domingo Brindis de Salas Garrido
Brindis de Salas, El Paganini cubano, Barón de Salas, Rey de las Octavas
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Claudio Brindis de Salas has been one of the most famous Cuban violinists of all time
Francisco de Jesús Rivera Figueras
Paquito D'Rivera
Cuban jazz musician, clarinetist and alto, tenor and soprano saxophonist
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
Faustino Oramas Osorio
El Guayabero, «el juglar mayor de Cuba», «el rey del doble sentido»
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Popular troubadour, he is recognized as «the greatest minstrel of Cuba» and achieved fame as «the king of double meaning» for his ability and grace in weaving complex sung narratives in ...
Fernando Borrego Linares
Polo Montañez, Guajiro Natural
The History of Polo Montañez, the Natural Guajiro
Of peasant and humble origin, with self-taught musical training, he became one of Cuba's musical symbols in just 2 years
