He was born on April 10th, 1913. He published articles, booklets, iconographies on Cuban creators and genres. His researcher labour began in the Institute of Folkloric Researches in 1958. From 1962 he began working in the Havana Provincial Coordination of the National Council of Culture.

He was borns in Havana on April 10th, 1915. Cousin of Chano Pozo. In 1937 he settled in the United States of America. He played kettle-drums, congas and timbal in the following orchestras: Machito y sus afrocubanos, José Curbelo, Noro Morales, Tito Puentes, Tito Rodríguez, Enrico Madriguera, Pérez Prado, Stan Kenton, Herbie Mann, Jack Coke, Xavier Cugat, Rene Touzet and Billy Taylor.

He was born in July 16th, 1881 and died in April 10th, 1969. In 1883 his mother took him to Minorca (Balearic Islands), where he studied elementary school and graduated as Bachelor in 1895. Being a student he published a story in a Minorca newspaper. In 1895, when he began studying Laws in the University of Havana, he took part in the creation of the students’publishing El Eco de la Cátedra; he kept on studying in Barcelona and there he graduated as Licentiated in Laws. He graduated as Doctor in Laws (1901) in the University of Madrid and returned to Havana in 1902. From 1903 to 1905 she worked in the consular service of the Republic of Cuba. He studied criminology in Italy and made friendship with Cesare Lombroso and with Enrico Ferri. He collaborated in the former´s magazine Archivio di Antropologia Criminale, Psichiatria e Medicina Legale. In 1906 he was appointed prosecutor of the Havana Court of Justice. Next year he joined the Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País (Economic Society of Friends of the Country) from which he became President. Professor by Opposition of the Faculty of Public Law of the University of Havana. In 1910 he attends as official delegate of Cuba to the First international Congress of Management Sciences, held in Brussels, Belgium. That very year he re-started publishing the Revista Bimestre Cubana, organ of the Economic Society. He remained as its director until 1959. He was among the initiators of the 1914 People University. With José María Chacón y Calvo he settled in 1924 the Society of Cuban Folklore, and that year he settled the Archivos del Folklore Cubano magazine, which he directed during its five years of being issued. He lived in Washington from 1931 to 1933 and became active against Gerardo Machado´s dictatorship, then ruling in Cuba. In 1936 he settled the Institución Hispanoamericana de Cultura from which he was its president until it dissapeared, and Ultra magazine, cultural publishing. In 1937 he created and was the President of the Society of Afro Cuban Studies. He arranged in 1941, in the Hispanocubana, the Alianza Cubana por un Mundo Libre, as organ of struggle against fascism. In 1942 he started a Seminar on Cuban Etnography in the University of Havana. The titles of: Honoris Causa Doctor in Humanities from the University of Columbia, in Etnography from the University of Cuzco, (Perú) and in Law in the University of Santa Clara were conferred to him. Besides the magazines he founded and directed, he collaborated in Cuba América, Cuba Contemporánea, Universidad de La Habana, Revista de Arqueología y Etnología, Azul y Rojo, Revista Científica Internacional, El Mundo Ilustrado, Derecho y Sociología, El Mundo, El Cubano Libre, El Fígaro, Remedios Ilustrado, Diario Español, Ilustración Cubana, El Comercio, Letras, Alma Cubana, La Discusión, Bohemia, El Triunfo, La Razón, Revista de Administración, Gráfico, La Reforma Social, El País, Revista de La Habana, La Revista, Heraldo de Cuba, La Nova Catalunya, Revista de Avance, Social, Polémica, Revista Tabaco, Minerva, Diario de la Marina, Islas, La Gaceta de Cuba, Casa de las Américas, Archivos Venezolanos de Folklore; Traducción (Tampa, Florida); El Diluvio (Barcelona); La Nueva Democracia (New York); The Hispanic American Historical Review (North Carolina, EE.UU.). Besides, member of the Academy of History of Cuba. He outstood as top researcher of Afro Cuban folklore, by publishing diverse and important titles. He wrote several books of Law and his works La filosofía penal de los espiritistas and Contrapunteo cubano del tabaco y el azúcar were translated into Portuguese and English, respectively. He settled and directed for many long years the Office of the Historian of the Havana City.