Antonio Guiteras

Antonio Guiteras

male, deceased (1935)
Antonio Guiteras Holmes was a leading politician in Cuba during the 1930s. A proponent of revolutionary socialism, he participated in the radical...
Perez Prado

Perez Prado

male, deceased (1989)
Dámaso Pérez Prado was a Cuban/Mexican bandleader and composer. He is commonly referred to as the "King of the Mambo". Prado was born in Ma...
Carilda Oliver Labra

Carilda Oliver Labra

female, 85 years old
Carilda Oliver Labra is a Cuban poet, born in Matanzas in 1924. She studied Law at the University of Havana. She is also known to excel at drawing,...

Arsenio Rodríguez

male, deceased (1970)
Ignacio de Loyola Rodríguez Scull, known as Arsenio Rodríguez was a Cuban musician who developed the son montuno, other Afro-Cuban rhythms and is of...
Henry Reeve

Henry Reeve

male, deceased (1876)
Henry Reeve (1850-1876) was a Brigadier General in Cuba's 'Ejercito Libertador' - more commonly known as the 'Ejercito Mambi' - during the Ten...
Francisco Aguabella

Francisco Aguabella

male, 84 years old
Francisco Aguabella (c. 1925) is an Afro-Cuban jazz conga player, well-known on the jazz scene since the 1950s born in Matanzas, Cuba. In 1992 he...
Arnaldo Ochoa

Arnaldo Ochoa

male, deceased (1989)
Arnaldo Ochoa Sánchez was a prominent Cuban general who was executed after being found guilty of treason by a Cuban court. Ochoa was born in old O...
Yoandy Garlobo

Yoandy Garlobo

male, 32 years old
Yoandy Garlobo Romay (born January 12, 1977 in Jovellanos, Matanzas Province, Cuba) is a baseball player who starred for Cuba at the 2006 World...

Manuel Piñeiro

male, deceased (1998)
Manuel Piñeiro Losada was Cuban revolutionary who became the first head of the Cuban General Intelligence Directorate (Dirección General de In...
Barbarito Torres

Barbarito Torres

male, 53 years old
Barbarito Torres (b. Matanzas, Cuba, 1956) is a Cuban musician player, best known for his work with the Afro Cuban All Stars and the Buena Vista...