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Yilian Cañizares was born in Havana, Cuba, and studied violin there, following the Russian violin school. [2] In 1997, she moved to Venezuela , in order to pursue her studies at the "Academia Latinoamericana de violin".
Fabiola María de la Cuba Carrera (Peru, Lima, February 19, 1966) is a Peruvian singer. [ 1 ] She began as a member of Vecinos de Juan and in 1995 in the Creole group Los Hijos del Sol. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 1996 she began her solo career with the release of her first album related to waltzes.
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]
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: By occupation: 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.
Myrta Blanca Silva Oliveros (September 11, 1927 – December 2, 1987) better known as Myrta Silva, was a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter and television producer who was known affectionately as "La Gorda de Oro".
Mercedes Valdés Granit (September 24, 1922 – June 13, 1996), better known as Merceditas Valdés, was a Cuban singer who specialized in Afro-Cuban traditional music. Under the aegis of ethnomusicologists Fernando Ortiz and Obdulio Morales, Valdés helped popularize Afro-Cuban music throughout Latin America.
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."
Guantanamo Bay from satellite images. Women activists were also disappointed by the result of the Platt Amendment's conditions. As with Afro-Cubans, women played important roles in the Cuban independence movement and were characterised as 'mambisas', or courageous warrior mothers symbolizing the struggle for social justice. [15]