Society

Julio Valdés-Brito Ibáñez

Julio Brito, el pintor melódico de Cuba

His best conceived work is the guajira El amor de mi bohío, created in 1937, and which achieved great national and international popularity

Reinaldo Montesinos Muñoz

Rey Montesinos

Important and versatile Cuban musician, guitarist and orchestrator

René Marquéz Rojo

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

Gregorio José Germán Piniella Vázquez de Mella

Germán Pinelli

Pinelli was born in La Habana

Clara Amalia de los Reyes Romero de Nicola

Born in La Habana, guitarist and professor

Benito Antonio Fernández Ortiz

Ñico Saquito, El guarachero de Oriente, Compay Gato

Antonio Fernández, who became known in the Cuban musical world with the nickname Ñico Saquito

Efraìn Amador Piñero

Cuban musician who has maintained a brilliant musical career as an instrumentalist, composer, and arranger

Juana Rivero Casteleiro

Cuca Rivero

Professor and musician

Miriam Ramos Heres

Singer, composer, and guitarist

Gualfredo Allué

Nené Allué

Born in Camagüey

César Portillo de la Luz

Composer, guitarist and singer

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

Vicente Feliú Miranda

El Tinto

Musician, singer, guitarist, and singer-songwriter

José Sánchez

Pepe, el Maestro

He is considered the father of the trovadoresque song in Cuba; he was the mentor of Sindo Garay

Sergio Leovaldo Vitier García-Marrúz

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

Graciela Párraga Ponce de León

Composer, guitarist and singer from Havana

Rafael Cueto

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

Eusebio Delfín Figueroa

Cuban composer, guitarist and singer

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

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 ...

Manuel Barruecos

Classical guitarist and professor at the Peabody Conservatory

Kelvis Ochoa

Kelvis Ochoa is tremendously popular among Cuban youth (as well as among more than a few older Cubans)

Adonis Puentes

Cuban-Canadian singer-songwriter, sings in Spanish and English

Ahmed Dickinson Cárdenas

Contemporary Cuban classical guitarist

Yoel Martínez Rodríguez

Buena Fe

Yoel is a guitarist, arranger, and second vocalist of the Duo Buena Fe

Rachid López Gómez

Rachid López Gómez guitarist and composer

Ernesto Blanco Ponsada

Cuban musician, composer, performer and arranger, graduated in Classical Guitar from the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory

Eduardo Sosa Laurencio

Sosa is a prominent Cuban troubadour from Santiago de Cuba who has captivated audiences with his compositions full of traditional roots and a distinctly Cuban style

Ángel Quintero

Cuban guitarist and composer

José Antonio Rojas

Ñico Rojas

Founder of the filin movement in the 1940s and a hydraulic engineer by profession, Ñico Rojas remained for decades as one of the great unknowns in Cuban music, at least among the general public

José Andrés Ordaz Aguilera

Pepe Ordaz

Pepe Ordaz is an exponent of the musical movement called La Nueva Trova, which was recognized internationally through Pablo Milanés and Silvio Rodríguez

Mauricio Figueiral

Renowned Cuban trovador, member of UNEAC

Juan Carlos Formell Alfonso

He was born in 1964 in La Habana, living in Callejón de Hamel, and later in his grandmother's house in Marianao

Reynaldo Armando Montalvo Vasallo

Rey Montalvo

Troubadour, sociologist, writer, conductor and Cuban television scriptwriter

Ángel Torres

La Biblia del Béisbol

He was born in Vedado, Havana, and grew up in the Santo Suárez neighborhood in the same Cuban capital

Yonder Alonso

Mr. 305

Yonder Alonso is a former first baseman of professional Cuban baseball and current MLB Network analyst

José Mauri Esteve

===BODY=== Orchestra conductor and composer

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

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 ...

Calixto César Álvarez Fernández

Cuban musician who performed musical instruments from a very early age

Juan Guiteras Gener

Padre de la parasitología médica nacional

===BODY=== Distinguished hygienist physician, epidemiologist, writer and pedagogue