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Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso was born on 21 October 1925, at 47 Serrano Street in the Santos Suárez neighborhood of Havana, Cuba. [10] [3] [11] Her father, Simón Cruz, was a railway stoker, and her mother, Catalina Alfonso Ramos, a housewife of Haitian descent who took care of an extended family. [3]
Daughter of Catalan-Jewish [3] immigrants who moved to Cuba, her father was a tailor and her mother was a seamstress. [4] Olga Guillot was born in Santiago de Cuba, and her family moved to Havana when she was five years old. [2] As a teenager, she and her sister, Ana Luisa, performed as the "Duo Hermanitas Guillot."
Alicia Castro's Queens of Havana: The Amazing Adventures of the Legendary Anacaona, Cuba's First All-Girl Dance Band (Grove Press, 2007) is a history of the band which concentrates on the band's early period. The British edition is titled Anacaona: The Adventures of Cuba's Most Famous All-Girl Orchestra.
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also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: Cuban This category exists only as a container for other categories of Cuban women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
At age 16, she met Reutilio Domínguez in Santiago de Cuba. He became her singing partner and husband, resulting in a collaboration that lasted until his death in Guantanamo in 1971. In 1948 they began working with the famous guitarist and singer Ñico Saquito and gained increasing popularity on radio, film and television.
History of women in Cuba (5 C, 2 P) O. Women's organizations based in Cuba (1 C, 3 P) S. ... Pages in category "Women in Cuba" The following 3 pages are in this ...