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The Grupo para el Desarrollo Integral de la Capital (Group for the Integral Development of Havana) is an urban planning effort in Havana, Cuba, established in 1987. [1] According to one scholar, it was "created to develop new ways of dealing with the problems created by three decades of neglect" of the city by the state. [2]
José Manuel Carbajal Zaldivar “El Taiger” worked together with his cousin, Jorge Junior, in the Cuban music group Los 4. [7] On September 25th, 2020 he posted online that his mother had died at the age of 53. Some of his friends and accompanists stated that this tragedy started a decline in the singer's emotional state. [8]
Los Zafiros were formed in Cayo Hueso, Havana in 1962, by Miguel Ángel Cancio Soria, with the following members: [2] Leoncio Morúa (Kike) Miguel Cancio (Miguelito) (Founder and first Director) Ignacio Elejalde, a counter-tenor, in high register. Eduardo Elio Hernández (El Chino) Oscar Aguirre (de Fontana) (first guitar and composer).
The Minorista Group (Spanish: Grupo Minorista) was an avant-garde group of Cuban artists, writers, philosophers, poets, and others collectively called the "vanguard of the intelligencia," active during the 1920s that had an enormous influence on events in Cuban politics and society in the early half of the twentieth century.
In 1970, thanks to their popularity, Los Brito were chosen by popular vote to represent Cuba in the "II Festival Internacional de la Canción Popular Varadero 70". [11] [12] [13] On the eleventh day of the festival, Wednesday, November 18, 1970, Los Brito are very well received with their song: "Con un sueño entre las manos". [14]
Havana D'Primera is a Cuban Timba band founded by Alexander Abreu on October 4, 2007, the date on which they performed their first live performance, at the Cabaret Turquino of the Hotel Habana Libre in Havana. The band is made up of a collective of high-level musicians in the Cuban music scene with a total of 16 members.
Los Van Van is one of the leading musical groups of post-revolutionary Cuba. It was founded in 1969 by bassist Juan Formell, who directed the band until his death in 2014.. Formell and former band members Changuito and Pupy are some of the most important figures in contemporary Cuban music, having contributed to the development of songo and timba, two popular dance music gen
Antonio Vidal Fernández (born February 20, 1928, Havana, Cuba, died July 30, 2013) was a Cuban artist. [1] He was active in the fields of painting, drawing, engraving, graphic design, and sculpture. Between 1953 and 1955 he was a member of the Grupo "Los Once", Havana. In 1962 he was a founding member of the Taller Experimental de Gráfica de ...