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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.
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]
She has been considered the raising star of the year 2013 by the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur [6] and the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles selected her album Invocación in the top ten 2015 South America albums. [7] In 2018 Cañizares and the Cuban pianist Omar Sosa released the album “Aguas”, featuring Inor Sotolongo as ...
Also: Cuba: People: By occupation: Musicians / Women by occupation: Women musicians Subcategories This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total.
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]
Celina González Zamora (16 March 1929 – 4 February 2015) was a Cuban singer-songwriter, who specialized in "música campesina", traditional music of the Cuban countryside. She is best known for co-authoring A Santa Bárbara with her partner Reutilio Domínguez. [ 1 ]
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".
Graciela was the lead vocalist over a period of 10 years in the 1930s and '40s with Orquesta Anacaona, an all-female ensemble, before leaving Cuba for the United States. She performed around the world, recording and sharing the stage with her adoptive older brother, Frank Grillo (known as Machito ), who encouraged her to sing.