Music

Graciela Párraga Ponce de León

Composer, guitarist and singer from Havana

José Marín Varona

Professor, composer of zarzuelas, songs, and works for Cuban piano

José Ardevol Gimbernat

Spanish composer, born in Barcelona and naturalized Cuban

Rafael Cueto

Rafael Cueto, the last living member of the popular Cuban trio Matamoros, died in La Habana, at the age of 91

Calixto César Álvarez Fernández

Cuban musician who performed musical instruments from a very early age

Amelia Izquierdo

Singer, soprano and pedagogue

Eusebio Delfín Figueroa

Cuban composer, guitarist and singer

Alberto Ruíz Pérez

Alberto Ruiz Pérez, singer, composer and director, born in Havana

Obdulio Morales Ríos

He was a notable composer, pianist, musicologist, and Cuban orchestra conductor

Ángel Rafael Gómez Mayea

Teofilito

Composer, troubadour, and interpreter of troubadour melodies

Francisco Pozo

Chino Pozo

Pozo said he was a cousin of Chano Pozo, although some doubted it

Arturo Elías Bonachet Huguet

Cuban clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, band director and music pedagogue

Mario Travieso Rodríguez

Outstanding Cuban tenor, a singer with exceptional vocal abilities who, after more than fifty years of artistic life, remains active

Miriam Esther Escudero Suástegui

Musicologist and professor of Harmony and Counterpoint at the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory in Havana

Antonio María Taño López

Tony Taño

Composer and trumpeter

Julio Antío Valdés Garmendía

Cobarde, El Caballo

Charismatic Cuban singer of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Julio Valdés, "Cobarde"

Armando Peraza

He is one of the most important and respected figures in the world of percussion

Marcelino Guerra Abreu

Rapindey

He was born in the beautiful city of Cienfuegos

Pedro Eduardo Hernández

He studied music at the Conservatorio «Amadeo Roldán» and graduated with a specialty in singing from the Escuela Nacional de Arte and the Instituto Superior de Arte

Gustavo Álvarez

He was born in Alacranes, Matanzas

David Rendón Malagamba

Cuban pianist who was also a Choir Director and repertoire specialist for prominent figures in Cuban culture

Juan Climaco Formell Cortina

Juan Formell, El Mozart de Cuba

National Music Prize Juan Formell, one of the most important figures in Cuban musical culture of the 20th and 21st centuries

Ana Aguado Andreu

La Calandria Cienfueguera

Soprano

Joaquín Codina

Trovador Codina

Singer and Guitarist Codina, together with other troubadours, made known songs from the traditional songbook but moving away from the traditional form of bolero interpretation, imposing the style of self-accompanied ...

Ana Margarita Martínez-Casado Torralbas

Soprano and actress, descendant of a notable family of Cuban theater, daughter of Luis Manuel Martínez-Casado and Margot Torralbas and niece of the lyric tenor and actor Mario Martínez-Casado

Carmen Collado López

Graduated as Choral Director and Specialist in Pedagogical Methodology

Margarita Pedroso

A young lady of Cuban aristocracy—daughter of the Marquises of San Carlos de Pedroso—had trained her voice in Italy with the famous baritone Cesare Badiali

Xiomara Alfaro

Alondra de la canción, Ruiseñor de la canción

Cuban popular music singer currently residing in Miami, United States

Serafín Ramírez Fernández

Cuban composer and music critic, with mastery of various instruments and founder of the Gaceta Musical de La Habana in 1899

Michelle Herrera Álvarez

Graduate of the Manuel Saumell Elementary School of Music and the Amadeo Roldan Conservatory, specializing in Saxophone

Rolando Martínez López

Born in Cayo Hueso, La Habana

Raúl Iglesias

He was born in La Habana

Alberto Dávalos

Theatrical artist, tenor and stage director, founder of the Teatro Lírico de Matanzas and the Teatro Lírico de Holguín

Alicia Perea Maza

Pianist and piano teacher

Úrsula Deville

She was born in the city of Matanzas

Lucy Ferrero

She was born in La Habana

José Echániz Justiniani

Cuban pianist, orchestra conductor, and pedagogue

Consejo Valiente Roberts

Acerina, Rey del Danzón

Outstanding Cuban percussionist and composer, whose artistic career developed fundamentally in Mexico

Neris Amelia Martínez Salazar

Juana Bacallao, Juana la cubana

Popular Cuban artist

Antonio Lázaro

He was born in Guanabacoa, La Habana