Composer

Alfredo Valdés-Brito Gamba

Alfredo Brito

===BODY=== Alfredo Brito is a Cuban musician and singer, member of a family of artists with recognized prestige in the musical field

Alfredo Valdés-Brito Ibáñez

Outstanding Cuban musician from the first half of the twentieth century, first integrating various orchestras, later as composer and arranger

Alberto Villalón Morales

===BODY=== Alberto Villalón, guitarist and interpreter of the trovadoresco genre, was equally a distinguished composer

Jorge Garciaporrúa Álvarez

Garciaporrúa is a musician, advisor, director, dramaturg, pedagogue, and composer

Ricardo Díaz Fresneda

Born in Ciudad de La Habana, he grew up between El Cerro, San José de las Lajas and the Pogolotti neighborhood

Hubertus Christian de Blanck Valet

Hubert de Blanck

===BODY=== The pianist, composer, and pedagogue Hubert de Blanck (Hubertus Christian de Blanck Valet), who developed a considerable part of his professional work in Cuba, where he would achieve our nationality, ...

Eliseo Grenet Sánchez

===BODY=== Born in La Habana

Rafael García Grasa

Papito

Advisor to musical and dance groups such as Maraguán and Camagua, he transmitted his knowledge about the popular and traditional culture of the Caribbean, especially its African and Haitian roots

Julio Gonzalo Elías Roig Lobo

Gonzalo Roig

His work in orchestral direction, musical promotion, and composition was enormous, as if they were great schools of Cuban music

Adán Rey Cabrera

Adán Rey

===BODY=== He was born on February 9, 1964, participated and won the popularity award on the television program "Todo el Mundo Canta"

Manuel Corona Raimundo

===BODY=== Among the great figures of Cuban trovadoresque song, it is impossible not to mention the composer and guitarist

José Figarola

Pepe

===BODY=== Composer and performer

Rafael Ortiz Rodríguez

===BODY=== Born in Cienfuegos

José Antonio Méndez García

El King

He began around 1940 studying guitar and composition

Pedro Pablo Aranzola

24, Carucho

Aranzola was born in Nueva Paz in 1917

Humberto Jauma Peñalver

===BODY=== He was born in Santiago de las Vegas

José Antonio Nicolás Zorrilla

Nicolás

===BODY=== Singer-songwriter José Antonio Nicolás died in Barcelona, where he had lived since 1997, family sources reported

Elio Revé Matos

Rey del Changüí

Percussionist and composer

Moisés Simons Rodríguez

Moisés Simons

Composer, pianist and orchestra conductor

Juan Pedro Blanco Rodríguez

Juan Blanco

===BODY=== Composer

Federico Arístides Soto Alejo

Tata Güines, Manos de oro

===BODY=== He was born in Güines, La Habana

Laureano Fuentes Matons

===BODY=== Cuban composer, orchestra conductor, and violinist

Manuel Hilario Galbán Torralba

Galbán

Cuban musician known as the guitarist and musical director of the renowned vocal group Los Zafiros, also as director of the group Batey, member of the Vieja Trova Santiaguera, and finally, guitarist of ...

Antonio Torroella

Papaíto

===BODY=== Born in Matanzas

José Manuel Aniceto Díaz

He is one of the most distinguished creators of dance music, a renowned flutist, composer, orchestra conductor, and pedagogue

José Mauri Esteve

===BODY=== Orchestra conductor and composer

Mario Fernández Porta

===BODY=== Composer, pianist, Cuban performer

Carlos Manuel Puebla

Cantor de la revolución

===BODY=== Composer, guitarist and singer

Carlos Fariñas Cantero

===BODY=== Endowed with elevated artistic and musical sensitivity, vast culture, a mind privileged by nature and great capacity for work, master Fariñas is an extraordinary man, determined and firm, strict ...

Vedasto Orfilio Acosta Febles

A simple man, selfless, highly motivated to work, create and do it well, which is why for most of his life he was absorbed in carrying out several works and projects simultaneously, some of which remained ...

Santiago Feliú Sierra

El eléctrico, Santi, hippie

Cuban singer-songwriter who belongs to the movement known as Nueva Trova and has transcended, also reaching Novísima Trova which has been taking root and reflecting in faces as celebrated as those of ...

Tirso Díaz

===BODY=== Composer and guitarist

Antonio Gumersindo Garay García

Sindo Garay, El gran faraón de Cuba

===BODY=== This man from Santiago is one of the greatest troubadours and composers of Cuban music

Generoso Jiménez García

Generoso

===BODY=== Trombonist, member of the legendary Banda Gigante de Benny Moré

Julio Valdés-Brito Ibáñez

Julio Brito, el pintor melódico de Cuba

His best conceived work is the guajira El amor de mi bohío, created in 1937, and which achieved great national and international popularity

Ernesto Sixto de la Asunción Lecuona Casado

Ernesto Lecuona

Cuban composer and pianist born in Guanabacoa

José Tejedor Silbate

Singer, he began in amateur programs, parties and performances in public places, forming a popular duo with Luis Oviedo

Noel Nicola Reyes

El Diente

Born into a family of musicians

Augusto Enríquez Hernández

Augusto Enrique

Singer and composer, one of the most well-known and charismatic figures in the Cuban music scene

Manuel Saumell Robredo

A musician and composer who has been characterized as the initiator of nationalism within our music

Héctor Alipio Téllez Ruiz

Héctor Téllez

He was born in Placetas, Santa Clara

Nilo Menéndez Barnet

Nilo Menéndez Barnet was born in Matanzas, the same city as Pérez Prado

Rafael Somavilla Morejón

Pianist, orchestrator and composer

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

Longino Rey Alonso Castillo

Pachito Alonso

Distinguished musician and Orchestra Director