Music | Cuban Famous

Marta Isabel Campos Morales

Marta Campos

She began her music studies at the "Amadeo Roldán" Conservatory, graduating in classical guitar in 1976

Amadito Valdés

Las Baquetas de Oro del Buena Vista Social Club

===BODY=== A faithful exponent of Cuban music and jazz in Cuba and the world

María Álvarez Ríos

María Alvarez Ríos began composing when she was five years old

Luis Mariano Carbonell Pulles

Luis Carbonell, el Acuarelista de la Poesía Antillana

===BODY=== Renowned reciter known as "The watercolorist of Antillean poetry"

Niurka González Núñez

===BODY=== Flauta Virtuosa - Niurka González & María del Henar Navarro She began her musical studies at the "Manuel Saumell" Conservatory in 1989 with professors Luisa M

Teresa Fernández García

Teresita Fernández

===BODY=== Cuban trovadora and teacher whose songs for children have remained in the musical taste of Cubans for decades

===BODY=== 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

===BODY=== At birth he is baptized before the cameras of CMQ Televisión, becoming the first baptism televised in Latin America

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 ...

Manuel Ochoa Ochoa

===BODY=== He began his studies with his mother Caridad Ochoa, who was an excellent Opera singer graduated from the Royal Conservatory of San Fernando de Cadiz, the place where Manuel de Falla studied ...

Flores Chaviano

Flores Chaviano is one of the great figures of contemporary guitar

María Elena Mendiola

She comes from a family of professionals not dedicated to music

Amparo del Riego Vidal

Amparito

Graduate of the Instituto Superior de Arte de La Habana, Cuba

María Teresa Vera

===BODY=== At a very early age she began to make herself known in bohemian and trova circles

Aida Zertucha Palma

===BODY=== Music Methodologist at the Provincial Center of Culture Houses of Ciudad de La Habana

María Matilde Alea Fernández

Composer, pianist, and Cuban Doctor of Pedagogy born in Camajuaní, province of Las Villas; in the same year 1918 she moved with her family to Pinar del Río

Israel López

Cachao

===BODY=== Known simply as "Cachao", he was a Cuban musician and composer

Yumar Bonachea Rodríguez

El Yuma

He was born in the city of Sancti Spíritus, more recognized for its typical colonial atmosphere and for being the cradle of the trovadores

Rosa Cruz

She was born in the remote town of Regla in Ciudad de la Habana

Liuba María Hevia

===BODY=== Guitarist, composer, and performer

Jamila Castillo Carballea

Jamila Purofilin

She is from Havana; born in the La Víbora neighborhood, on Carmen Street near Juan Delgado Park

Electo Rosell Horrutiner

Chepín

His first music teacher was his father, guitarist José Rosell

Telmary Díaz Fernández

Rapera cubana

Telmary became known as a member of the rap group Free Hole Negro, and later for her work alongside singer-songwriter William Vivanco, eventually becoming one of the central figures of the Interactivo ...

María Felicia Pérez Arroyo

For her knowledge of music, her general culture, her beautiful soprano voice and her artistic mastery, she ranks today as one of the most important choir directors of our time

Julio Gonzalo González Fonseca

Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Gonzalito

===BODY=== 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

===BODY=== 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

===BODY=== 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

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

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

Roberto Ondina

He received initial music studies from his father, and later studied flute with several teachers, although his learning was mostly self-taught

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, ...

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

Enma Badía

===BODY=== She studied piano; initially, with Juan Molinari, as well as Harmony with Rosich in Spain, where she was a member of the Orfeo Catalá de Barcelona

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

Mercedes Valdés Granit

Merceditas Valdés, Mi Pequeña Aché

She was born on the Day of Our Lady of Mercedes in the Havana neighborhood of Cayo Hueso on Neptuno and Hospital streets, where she assimilated, from childhood, Yoruba chants and prayers, rumba and works ...