Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 169. Not illustrated. Chapters: Cuban Flautists, Cuban Guitarists, Cuban Percussionists, Cuban Pianists, Cuban Trumpeters, Cuban Violinists, Rita Montaner, Moises Simons, Hubert de Blanck, Guillermo Portabales, Ernesto Lecuona, Alberto Corrales, Eliseo Grenet, Compay Segundo, Bola de Nieve, Faustino Oramas, Maria Teresa Vera, Manuel Galban, Guillermo Barreto, Carlos Emilio Morales, Carlos Puebla, Antonio Maria Romeu, Pedro Knight, Omar Sosa, Marco Rizo, Amadeo Roldan, Ruben Gonzalez, Eliades Ochoa, Alfredo de La Fe, Bebo Valdes, Claudio Brindis de Salas Garrido, Eusebio Delfin, Conchita Espinosa, Enrique Jorrin, Julio Cueva, Sindo Garay, Alberto Villalon, Manuel Corona, Chicho Ibanez, Nico Saquito, Jacob Lateiner, Alfredo Bolona, Rodrigo Prats, Trio Matamoros, Jaime Prats, Adalberto Alvarez, Lorenzo Hierrezuelo, Guyun, Isidor Lateiner, Aida Diestro, Patricio Ballagas, Jose White Lafitte, Jorge Anckermann, Rey Caney, Angel Reyes, Los Compadres, Guillermo Perich, Armando Orefiche, Mauricio Vallina, Ciro Diaz. Excerpt: Rita Montaner, born Rita Aurelia Fulcida Montaner y Facenda (Guanabacoa, 20 August 1900 Havana, 17 April 1958), was a Cuban singer, pianist, actress and star of stage, film, radio and television. In Cuban parlance, she was a vedette (a star), and she was well-known in Mexico City, Paris, Miami and New York, where she performed, filmed and recorded on various occasions. She was probably the best-loved female star in Cuba of the period 19201960; they called her Rita de Cuba. Though classically trained, her mark was made as a singer of Afrocubanist salon songs. She was one of three great musicians born in the small town of Guanabacoa in the province of Havana; the others were Bola de Nieve and Ernesto Lecuona. The lives of the three friends were connected professionally; they worked together many times. Rita's family and...