1. Rita Montaner (1900)

Cuban Musician

Cuban singer, musician, and film, TV and stage actress who was her nation's most beloved performer for half a century.

2. Bebo Valdés (1918)

Cuban Musician

Pivotal figure in the golden age of Cuban music, helping to develop mambo and Latin jazz. He brought Afro-Cuban sacred rhythms into dance music.

3. Cachao López (1918)

Cuban Musician

Grammy Award winner who was a virtuoso of the descarga and who was known as the inventor of the mambo.

4. Pedro Knight (1921)

Cuban Musician

Husband of singer Celia Cruz who worked behind the scenes in the music industry.

5. Chucho Valdés (1941)

Cuban Musician

Founded prominent Cuban Latin jazz band Irakere. Considered to be among the greatest jazz pianists to come out of Cuba.

6. Arturo Sandoval (1949)

Cuban Musician

Jazz trumpeter, pianist, and composer whose life was made into a 2000 TV movie entitled For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story.

7. Hilton Ruiz (1952)

Cuban Musician

Bebop and Afro-Cuban jazz artist whose premature death eluded a developing legacy of quality collaborations and innovative solo work.

8. Haila Mompié (1974)

Cuban Musician

Cuban son and timba singer known for being part of the band Azúcar Negra. She's also released several solo albums.

9. Amaury Gutiérrez (1963)

Cuban Musician

Famous for his self-titled, Latin Grammy-nominated debut album (released in 1999), he is also notable for his recordings Piedras y Flores (2000); Alma Nueva (2001); and Pedazos de Mi (2006).

10. Luis Conte (1954)

Cuban Musician

Notable for his touring work with Madonna, Phil Collins, and James Taylor, this percussionist is also famous as a member of the Latin group Caldera and as a recording artist with I Mother...

11. Silvio Rodríguez (1946)

Cuban Musician

Widely recognized as one of Cuba's best folk singers, he is respected as the leader of the nueva trova movement. With nearly two dozen successful albums, many of his songs...

12. Arturo Stable (1975)

Cuban Musician

Arturo Stable is a Cuban Master percussionist and composer. His diverse musical experience and unique sound have allowed him to work in many environments but is best known as a...

13. Roberto Fonseca (1975)

Cuban Musician

Roberto Fonseca is a Cuban jazz pianist. From an early age Fonseca was surrounded by music: his father was a drummer his mother Mercedes Cortes Alfaro a professional singer and...

14. Pérez Prado (1916)

Cuban Musician

Dámaso Pérez Prado was a Cuban bandleader musician and composer. He is often referred to as the King of the Mambo. Pérez was his surname thus Dámaso Pérez his true...

15. Candido Camero (1921)

Cuban Musician

Cándido de Guerra Camero also known simply as Candido is a Cuban-born percussionist who has backed several jazz acts since the 1950s. Although he has been credited as the first...

16. Leo Brouwer (1939)

Cuban Musician

Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida is a Cuban composer conductor and guitarist. He is the grandson of Cuban composer Ernestina Lecuona y Casado.

17. Roberto Torres (1940)

Cuban Musician

Roberto Torres is a Cuban musician from Güines most famous for his interpretation of Simón Díaz's Caballo Viejo. He is considered to be one of the highest authorities in the...

18. Ignacio Berroa (1953)

Cuban Musician

Ignacio Berroa is a jazz drummer. In 1980 Ignacio left his country during the Mariel Boatlift moved to New York and joined Dizzy Gillespie’s quartet in 1981 becoming the drummer...

19. Flores Chaviano (1946)

Cuban Musician

s Chaviano is a Cuban/Spanish classical guitarist and guitar composer. He studied in Madrid and settled permanently in Spain in 1981. He is director of the Ensemble de Segovia.

20. Changuito (1948)

Cuban Musician

Changuito is a Cuban percussionist.

21. Paquito D'Rivera (1948)

Cuban Musician

Paquito D'Rivera is a Cuban alto saxophonist clarinetist and soprano saxophonist. The winner of multiple Grammys and other awards D'Rivera has lived in the United States since the early 1980s....

22. Manuel Barrueco (1952)

Cuban Musician

Manuel Barrueco is a Cuban virtuoso classical guitarist. He was born in 1952 in Santiago de Cuba on Cuba's southeastern shore. He has toured in the U. S. Europe and...

23. Joaquín Clerch (1965)

Cuban Musician

Joaquín Clerch is a classical guitarist and composer. He was a close friend and protégé of Cuban guitarist and composer Leo Brouwer. Clerch's composition Yemaya won first prize in both...

24. Mey Vidal (1984)

Cuban Musician

Mey Vidal in the city of Palma Soriano in the province of Santiago de Cuba. She is a Cuban Reggae en Español Dance hall and Reggaeton singer and composer. She...

25. Pablo Milanés (1943)

Cuban Musician

Pablo Milanés Arias is a Cuban singer-songwriter and guitar player. He studied at a conservatory in Havana. He is considered one of the founders of the Cuban nueva trova along...

26. Perucho Figueredo (1818)

Cuban Musician

Pedro Felipe Figueredo mostly known as Perucho was a Cuban poet musician and freedom fighter of the 19th century. In the 1860s he was active in the planning of the...

27. Luis Manuel Molina (1959)

Cuban Musician

Luis Manuel Molina de Varona is a Cuban musician concert guitarist composer arranger musical director broadcaster and producer of radio programs.

28. Yalil Guerra (1973)

Cuban Musician

Yalil Guerra is a Cuban composer and guitarist.

29. Jose Tillan (1966)

Cuban Musician

José Tillán is a media executive and professional musician composer and Latin Grammy winning producer whose career has primarily been focused on the Latin music industry.

30. Telmary Diaz (1977)

Cuban Musician

Telmary Diaz is a famous Cuban musician, who was born on March 10, 1977 in Cuba. According to Astrologers, Telmary Diaz's zodiac sign is Pisces.
Telmary Diaz (March 10, 1985), better...