Music

Yulién Oviedo Sánchez

Yuli, El chiquitico jefe

From a very early age he began his musical endeavors with his father Calixto Oviedo who has always helped and supported him in his training

Elaín Morales

Elaín was born in San Antonio de los Baños, La Habana

María Cervantes Sánchez

Chanchín

Pianist and singer

César Portillo de la Luz

Composer, guitarist and singer

Israel Rojas Fiel

Vocalist and leader of Dúo Buena Fe alongside Yoel Martínez

Marta Justiniani Balseiro

She began singing as a child alongside a brother

Zenaida Castro Romeu

Zenaidita

Descendant of a family of musicians, in 1983 she created the Chamber Choir "Cohesión" that set standards for a new stage presence and a new vocal sonority

Siro Rodríguez Forneaux

Self-taught singer-songwriter with a tenor voice who was part of the Trío Matamoros, serving as the second voice

Ernesto Abelardo Valdés

Abelardito Valdés

Composer and conductor of a Charanga-type orchestra

Walfrido Guevara Navarro

He was born in Santiago de Cuba

Carlos Alfredo Peyrellade

Pianist and pedagogue Carlos Alfredo Peyrellade dies

Manuel Muñoz Cedeño

Considered one of the most outstanding Cuban musicians of the 19th century

Patricio Ballagas Palacio

Patricio Ballagas was a singular troubadour, a magnificent performer of the double bass, cornet, trombone, flute, guitar, and other instruments

Alberto Vera Morúa

Composer of Cuban Song, synonym of love and melody

Osvaldo Farrés Rodríguez

One of the Latin American popular composers whose work is most widely known internationally: Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps; A Whole Lifetime; Come Closer to Me and Three Words are considered bolero classics. He ...

Vicente Feliú Miranda

El Tinto

Musician, singer, guitarist, and singer-songwriter

Manuel Mauri Esteve

Distinguished Cuban composer born in Spain

Armando Christian Uria Ruiz Pérez

Pitbull

He is an American singer, rapper, and music producer of Cuban descent

Emilio Agramonte Piña

Academic of Arts and Letters, and doctorate in laws from the Universidad de Madrid

Jaime Prats Estrada

He was a Cuban flautist, composer, and orchestra conductor

Jorge Luis Pacheco Campos

Pianist, percussionist, composer, and musical director, winner of the first prize at the International Young Jazzists Competition (JoJazz 2007)

Jorge Luis Pacheco Borrego

Musician, Professor and Advisor, Small Screen Award winner and Artist of Merit of Radio and Television

América García

In the late 1930s, this mezzo-soprano and actress was born in Matanzas and became the founder of the Teatro Lírico Nacional de Cuba

Sergio Leovaldo Vitier García-Marrúz

He studied guitar at the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory and composition at the Superior Institute of Art in Havana

Oliver Valdés Rey

He was born in La Habana

Manuel Avilés Lozano

Composer and Orchestra Director

Manuel Avilés Lozano

Composer and Orchestra Director

Antonio Quevedo

Antonio Quevedo, husband of María Muñoz de Quevedo, architect, music critic and efficient cultural collaborator

Remberto Bécker Márquez

The longest-lived of Cuban composers

Marta Vallín

Actress and singer, contralto She was born in Matanzas

Orlando Contreras Soto

Orlando Contreras, La Voz Romántica de Cuba, el Jefe del Despecho

Cuban bolero singer, especially of heartbreak songs, called by his fans "The Romantic Voice of Cuba"

José Eulalio Loyola Fernández

Composer, musicologist, and flutist

Carlos Molina

Recognized guitarist and professor

Edelmira Armanda Faustina de Zayas González

Cuban soprano, one of the most extraordinary voices in the history of Cuban lyric art

Julián Barreto

Born in La Habana and died in Palmira, Cienfuegos

Pepín Vaillant

Pepín Vaillant

On February 20, 2001, Pepín Vaillant, an excellent trumpeter considered a spectacular man, died in Santiago de Cuba

Osmundo Calzado Samada

Musician (clarinetist and saxophonist), arranger and orchestra conductor considered one of the greats of Cuban music

Amalia Arriaza

The soprano was born in Santiago de Cuba

Oscar Hernández Falcón

Cuban composer and guitarist

Emma Viel

The mezzo-soprano was born in La Habana