Ana Aguado García
La Calandria Cienfueguera
From her childhood she showed signs of an excessive vocation toward music, which would initially be under the care of her mother
Alexis Puentes
Alex Cuba
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Singer-songwriter Alex Cuba comes from Artemisa, Cuba and currently resides in Smithers, Canada
Úrsula Hilaria Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso
Celia Cruz
Celia Cruz was born in La Habana, she was the second daughter of four siblings
Pascasio Alonso Fajardo
Pacho Alonso
Excellent vocalist with extraordinary pitch, phrasing and perfect meter when singing
Raimunda Paula Peña Álvarez
Paulina Álvarez, La Emperatriz del Danzonete
Outstanding interpreter of Cuban rhythms, director of her own orchestra
Francisco Fabián Céspedes Rodríguez
Francisco Céspedes, Pancho Céspedes
Pancho Céspedes knew from a very young age that he had to abandon his medical career to focus on what really made his blood flow: music
Barbarito Diez Junco
La Voz de Oro del Danzón
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He was born in Bolondrón, Matanzas, exactly in a sugar mill already demolished that was called San Rafael de Jorrín, where Salustiana del Junco y de la Mercedes gave birth to Bárbaro Diéz ...
Candita Batista Batista
La Vedette Negra de Cuba, La Negra Afro-cubana
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Singer and vocalist for three-quarters of a century, known as The Black Vedette of Cuba and with performances in almost 20 countries across the Americas, Europe, and Africa
Luis Mariano Carbonell Pulles
Luis Carbonell, el Acuarelista de la Poesía Antillana
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Renowned reciter known as "The watercolorist of Antillean poetry"
Omara Portuondo Peláez
Omara Brown, La novia del feeling, La Diva del Buena Vista Social Club
There is something cinematic about the story of Omara Portuondo
Zenaida Armenteros Calvo
Orisha de la danza
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Dancer, singer and teacher of the purest Afro-Cuban traditions, she was born in Ciudad de la Habana in a humble working-class family
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 ...
Vicente Valdés Valdés
Vicentico Valdés
He was born in the legendary neighborhood of Cayo Hueso, cradle of many artists and traditions
José Marquetti
Cheo
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Singer with beautiful lyrical and expressive voice, creator of the guajira-son
Gladys Puig
Renowned Cuban lyric singer
Romana Elena Burguez González
Elena Burke, La Señora Sentimiento
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Revered and popular Cuban singer of boleros and romantic ballads
Bernarda Rodríguez Rojas
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Singer and harpist
María Teresa Vera
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At a very early age she began to make herself known in bohemian and trova circles
Boris Larramendi
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He was born in Havana, his father plays guitar from Los Panchos to Silvio Rodriguez, passing through The Beatles and El Trio Matamoros, his uncle Luis dances in the university's comparsa, meanwhile, ...
Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz
Compay Segundo
Compay Segundo was the oldest and most famous trovador in the world
Lissette Álvarez Chorens
Reina de los ritmos ye-yé
Born in Lima, Peru, she is a Cuban-Puerto Rican singer, composer, and actress
Roberto Ruiz Rebó
El cantor de “Los Sueños Azules y las cosas cotidianas”
Words flow deliciously and dissolve within the cadenced music that, to the rhythm of guitars and percussion, are introduced by a flute that enchants with its soft and sensual melody
Miriam Bayard
Miriam Bayard is a talented and original Cuban singer, professional musician, educator, theater and television actress born in Havana on December 7, 1944 and a resident of the Mexican Republic since 1991, ...
Yenis Abella
She was born in the province of Camagüey, into a humble family
Adolfo P. Utrera
He was the eldest of ten siblings and very soon had to face life since his father died in 1922
Charles Abreu
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Pianist, composer, singer, teacher, arranger, concert performer
Ivette Cepeda
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A teacher by profession, Ivette Cepeda was drawn to singing from a young age, but starting in the 1990s she began her career as a soloist in tourist centers in the Cuban capital
Jamila Castillo Carballea
Jamila Purofilin
She is from Havana; born in the La Víbora neighborhood, on Carmen Street near Juan Delgado Park
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 ...
Augusto Blanca Gil
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Composer and singer, founder of the Cuban Nueva Trova
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
Faustino Oramas Osorio
El Guayabero, «el juglar mayor de Cuba», «el rey del doble sentido»
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Popular troubadour, he is recognized as «the greatest minstrel of Cuba» and achieved fame as «the king of double meaning» for his ability and grace in weaving complex sung narratives in ...
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
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Alfredo Brito is a Cuban musician and singer, member of a family of artists with recognized prestige in the musical field
Guillermo Álvarez Guedes
Álvarez Guedes, “innovador de la comedia moderna”
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Comedian, actor, writer, singer, producer and music entrepreneur
Adán Rey Cabrera
Adán Rey
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He was born on February 9, 1964, participated and won the popularity award on the television program "Todo el Mundo Canta"
Eliades Ochoa Bustamante
Guitarist and singer
Adolfo Alfonso Fernández
Adolfo Alfonso is considered one of the best decimistas that Cuba has had
Vedasto Orfilio Acosta Febles
A simple man, selfless, highly motivated to work, create and do it well, which is why for most of his life he was absorbed in carrying out several works and projects simultaneously, some of which remained ...
Santiago Feliú Sierra
El eléctrico, Santi, hippie
Cuban singer-songwriter who belongs to the movement known as Nueva Trova and has transcended, also reaching Novísima Trova which has been taking root and reflecting in faces as celebrated as those of ...
Lourdes Margarita Torres Ortiz
Lourdes Torres
Cuban singer-songwriter in her original work you can find countless themes, all related to the social reality in which she has lived and lives, telling not only her experiences but those of the people ...
Moraima Secada Ramos
La Mora
She was born in a house on San Miguel Street between Unión and Maceo in the city of Santa Clara
Antonio Gumersindo Garay García
Sindo Garay, El gran faraón de Cuba
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This man from Santiago is one of the greatest troubadours and composers of Cuban music
