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Carlos Acosta Quesada

Junior, Yuli

Carlos Acosta, born in La Habana in 1973, trained at the National Ballet School of La Habana, Cuba

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

Tomas Piard

Bachelor's degree in Art History from the University of La Habana and in Audiovisual Media Art from the Instituto Superior de Arte de Cuba

Arquímedes Pous

El negrito

Cuban actor, author and theatrical entrepreneur

Alexis Valdés Gutiérrez

Cristinito

Actor, director, comedian, screenwriter, monologist, producer, composer, and performer, he is a complete showman with international projection

Jorge Perugorría Rodríguez

Pichi

===BODY=== Pichi was born in Havana in the Wajay, Boyeros municipality, Havana, where he spent his childhood and adolescence

Julio García Espinosa

Founder of the Cuban Institute of Film Art and Industry (ICAIC), an organization he directed for eleven years

He began in theater at fifteen years old as an amateur actor and at seventeen was already studying at the Instituto Superior de Arte de La Habana, where he graduated as a Bachelor of Performing Arts in ...

Odilio Urfe Gonzalez

===BODY=== Born in Madruga, province La Habana this musicologist, pianist, professor and conductor

Dionisio Ramón Emilio Valdés Amaro

Bebo Valdés, Caballón

===BODY=== Interpreter of Cuban music and jazz, considered one of the central figures of the golden age of Cuban music

Flores Chaviano

Flores Chaviano is one of the great figures of contemporary guitar

Gerardo Chijona Valdés

Filmmaker and film critic

José Antonio Plana

Tony Plana

His father, Pepe, and his mother, Conchita, both Cuban, moved to Culver City, California, when Tony was a child

Héctor Quintero Viera

Actor, Director, Playwright and Narrator, he began his artistic work from childhood in radio, television and, later, theater

Abelardo José Estorino López

===BODY=== Abelardo José Estorino López (1925)

Erdwin Juventino Fernández Sánchez

Erdwin Fernández, Trompoloco, Simplicio

Cuban actor in radio, television, film, and circus

Jorge Fraga

Film director and professor

Ignacio Piñeiro Martínez

===BODY=== Ignacio Piñeiro was a true chronicler of the era in which he lived

Guillermo Rubalcaba

===BODY=== He is the director and founder of the legendary Charanga Rubalcaba

Alberto Damián Luberta Noy

Luberta, «el mártir cotidiano de la radio», Fabio Henríquez

===BODY=== Director and writer of radio programs

José Antonio Alonso Aday

He began in radio by chance because one day he went to CMW La Voz de las Antillas to visit his friend Chenín Guzmán

Otto F. Chaviano Lleonard

===BODY=== Scenic Designer and Theater Director

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

Víctor López Jorrín

Pucho López

Cuban pianist, composer, arranger, director and record producer

Humberto Solás Borrego

Humberto Solás

An emblematic figure of Cuban cinema and Spanish-language cinematography

Armando Suárez del Villar

Outstanding Professor of Performing Arts

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

Bárbaro Alberto Torres Delgado

Barbarito Torres

He was born in the city of Matanzas

Alejandro Brugués

Vicente Revuelta Planas

Cuban theatrical director and actor

Octavio Cortázar Jiménez

Filmmaker, director, documentarian

Rembert Egües

Son of flutist Richard Egües

Pastor Vega Torres

Cuban filmmaker

José Antonio Menéndez Egües

Tony Menéndez

Cuban dancer and choreographer

Daniel Díaz Torres

Cuban filmmaker, director of documentaries and fiction films

Eduardo de la Torre

Cameraman, documentary filmmaker and journalist Eduardo de la Torre, who worked for many years in the Film Section of the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, died from cardiovascular complications. He ...