Eliseo Grenet
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Eliseo Grenet Sánchez was a Cuban pianist and a leading composer/arranger of the day. He composed music for stage shows and films, and some famous Cuban dance music. Eliseo was one of three musical br
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Rita Montaner
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Rita Aurelia Fulcida Montaner y Facenda, known as Rita Montaner, was a Cuban singer, pianist and actress. In Cuban parlance, she was a vedette, and was well known in Mexico City, Paris, Miami and New
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…heard at wedding receptions. Its origins lie in a comparsa number of 1868, and in its new guise became one of the signature numbers for the vedette Rita Montaner. In 1930 he set a number of Nicolas Guillén's poems Motivos del son to music. Grenet left Cuba for Barcelona, Spain in 1932 after falling foul of some…
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Rita Montaner in 1923
Rita in 1929
Rita Montaner in 1938 during the shooting of El romance del palmar.