Music

Longino Rey Alonso Castillo

Pachito Alonso

Distinguished musician and Orchestra Director

Charles Flores

The career of Grammy Award-winning bassist Charles Flores began in Cuba in 1989 with Cuban jazz singer and composer Bobby Carcasses

Rafael Bergaza Zerquera

Felo Bergaza

Composer and pianist

Radeunda Lima Caso

Radeúnda Lima was born in the small town of Vueltas, municipality of Camajuaní, in the central region of the country and a stronghold of rural traditions, becoming one of the major figures throughout ...

Roberto Arturo Carcassés Cuza

Bobby Carcassés, el último gurú del jazz cubano

Composer and performer of Cuban popular music

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

Norman Milanés Moreno

He was born in Jiguaní, former province of Oriente, and is a composer and musical director

Mayda Galano Guilarte

She was born in Baracoa, Cuba, where, as a young child, her mother introduced her to the practice of music, to which she dedicates her life

Eduardo Ricardo Egües Martínez

Richard Egües

The most famous of Cuban popular flutists

Ernestina Lecuona Casado

She was born in the city of Matanzas, where she spent her first childhood years

Esther Borja Pérez

La Damisela encantadora

Esther Borja, considered one of the main voices of Cuba in the twentieth century

José Fernández Díaz

Joseíto Fernández, Rey de la Melodía

He was born in Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba

Lorenzo Hierrezuelo La O

Composer, guitarist and singer

Alina Sánchez Rodríguez

She is a Cuban soprano singer residing in Spain

René Marquéz Rojo

Musician, composer, and singer with a distinguished musical career in Cuba since the 1930s

Bárbara Llanes Zertucha

Excellent singer, pianist, composer, and arranger

Mayda Prado Alfonso

Cuban-American soprano Mayda Prado carries out the work in Cuernavaca of transmitting to new generations of singers the knowledge she has acquired through great teachers such as María Callas

Equis Alfonso Valdés

X Alfonso

He was born in La Habana, Cuba

Dámaso Pérez Prado

Rey del Mambo,

Dámaso Pérez Prado (Matanzas, Cuba, December 11, 1916 - Mexico City, September 14, 1989), the "King of Mambo", was a Cuban musician, composer, and arranger

Rodrigo Ricardo Prats Llorens

Rodrigo Prats

Composer, violinist, orchestra conductor

Gisela Hernández Gonzalo

Composer, pedagogue, choral director and researcher

Alice Dana Plasencia

Singer (soprano), pedagogue and composer

Roberto Faz Monzón

El sonero blanco de Cuba

He was born in the town of Regla

Abelardo Barroso Dargelez

Caruso

A sonero of great lineage

Eglise Gutiérrez

Eglise Gutiérrez is a lyric coloratura soprano born in Holguín, Cuba who emigrated to Miami, United States

Joaquín Nin Castellanos

Cuban composer, pianist and musicologist, born Spanish, since Cuba was then part of Spain, of Spanish parents; his father was the writer Joaquín Nin i Tudó

Ignacio Herrera

Nachito

He was born in Cuba in Santa Clara, but received all his education in Ciudad de La Habana, at Cuba's music conservatories, Alejandro García Caturla, the National School of Art, ENA, and at the ISA, Instituto ...

Rosario García Orellana

El ruiseñor cubano

Born in Madrid on October 2, 1905

José Luis Cortés González

El Tosco

Highly renowned flutist, arranger, composer, and music producer

Gaspar Villate Montes

Arte, música, piano, órgano, compositor

Villate, whose musical contributions were evident in operas, zarzuelas, symphonic and chamber works, despite living only 40 years, had a truly intense musical career focused on opera, achieving recognized ...

Guillermo Manuel Tomás

To the musician, composer, and intellectual Guillermo Manuel Tomás belongs the merit of having been born on a glorious date in the historical annals of the Republic of Cuba, exactly on October 10, 1868, ...

Dinorah Argüelles

She studied singing with Zoila Gálvez, Nadja Aladjen, Ava Rogova and Mario Fernández and acting with Adolfo de Luis

Leopoldo Pérez Ulloa

Leopoldo Ulloa

Leopoldo Ulloa, one of the most recorded and sung composers in Cuba

Isolina Carrillo Estrada

Cuban musician and composer

Manuel Valera

Manuel Valera is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, and composer who is at the forefront of contemporary modern jazz

Orestes Lois Falcón

He was born in Palmira, Las Villas

Calixto Callava

From childhood he immersed himself in the cultivation of rumba in his Belén neighborhood

Guillermo García

Musician in the band Chicago, Guillermo García played with Lennon, Ringo Starr, Stevie Wonder

Adelaida Diestro Rega

Aida Diestro

Outstanding Cuban pianist and director of choral groups

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

Félix Chapotín Lage

Trumpet player and orchestra conductor, specialized in popular music such as Cuban son and guaracha

Félix Guerrero

He was born in La Habana (Cuba)

Pedro Nolasco Jústiz Rodríguez

Peruchín

Pedro Nolasco Jústiz Rodríguez alias "PERUCHIN"

Laureano Fuentes Pérez

Son of Laureano Fuentes Matons

José Le Matt

Singer, tenor, bass

Antonio Arcaño Betancorut

El Monarca del Danzón

Flutist and orchestra conductor, known by the nickname "The Monarch of the Danzón"