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1896
Journalist Manuel de la Cruz died
19 de Febrero de 1896
He was born in Havana on September 19, 1861 and died in New York on February 19, 1896. He studied in San Anacleto School, in Havana. Still very young he travelled to France and Spain (1883 and 1884) and lives in Barcelona, where he increased his literary and politic formation. He sent collaborations to La Habana Elegante y la Revista Habanera from Spain. After having arrived to Cuba he often collaborated with La Ilustración Cubana (1885), from Barcelona, and El Cubano (1887).
In 1888 he argued with Cirilo Villaverde in relation to the figure of Narciso López, considered an anexionist by Cruz. In 1889 he is appointed correspondent of La Nación, diary of Buenos Aires, task he would fulfill until his death, and from where he made public the most outstanding Cuban personalities. He was also editor of El FÃgaro and Revista Cubana. Besides, he wrote in El PaÃs, El Almendares, El Porvenir. Collaborator of José MartÃ, he travelled along he island in order to pave the way for the Necessary War. In 1894 he fulfilled a revolutionary task, of unifying forces, in Oriente He held an important interview with General Guillermón Moncada. When the War of 1895 broke out he moved o Key West, and from there to New York, where he worked under.
Tomás Estrada Palma orders, as Secretary of the Delegation of the Partido Revolucionario Cubano (Cuban Revolutionary Party). During these years he worked as editor in Patria (Official Organ of the Cuban Revolutionary Party). He carried on a great propaganda activity in favor of the Revolution. Part of his biographic study on Ignacio Agramonte remains unedited. He made use of the pseudonyms of Un académico de la lengua, El académico de Banes, IsaÃas, Un colaborador asiduo, Enmanuel.
1949
Painter Fidelio Ponce died
19 de Febrero de 1949
Alfredo Fuentes Pons, selfbaptized in Havana as Fidelio Ponce de León y Henner, was born in January 24th, 1895 and died in February 19th. He lived an unfortunate xistence of an epoch characterized the lack of understanding, interest and will of a societe having no pictorial tradition at all. This rambling genius defended himself within his own environment, under a milky light from which fishes, flowers, and some human figures came out. The Cuban Van Gogh died of Tuberculosis and under misery, although that some of the pictures he painted to survive, were auctioned overseas at very high prices.
1963
Singer and composer Benny Moré died.
19 de Febrero de 1963
He was born on August 24,1919 and died in Havana on February 19th, 1963. Unanimously considered one of the top talented artists produced by our popular music. Brilliant in each and every musical gender. His name was Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré. Since his childhood he learned to play guitar, singing accompanied by it, feverishly, in parties and serenatas in Lajas and in neighbour towns. In 1940 he moved to Havana, where he was singing trovador style, in cafes, bars, streets and parks for some years.
In 1945 he went to Mexico the conjunto (musical group) conducted by Miguel Matamoros, staying there, where he performed in Aztec nite-clubs, until joining to Dámaso Pérez-Prado orchestra. With the King of Mambo he recorded several discs, made some films and successfuly sang for a while. He returned to Cuba and joined the Mariano Mererón Eastern Orchestra, but some months later he came back to Mexico, where he carried on his rising artistic life. In 1953 he returned to Cuba and worked with Bebo Valdés Orchestra. After this he settled his own orchestra, conquering the peak of fame and people´s love with it His style opened a way unknown to our chant and rhytm. Original personality. A path travelled by musical art among us.
His voice, that ran along all vocal register, tones and tempos, dubbed in phrases and shouts, accompanied by dance steps, creating a \"wrapping\" atmosphere. He switched from a soft song to guaguancó, almost without transition, getting a highest quality in both of them. Knowing no technique at all, he conducted his great orchestra, thus making a Cuban seal indeed. Known as «El bárbaro del ritmo». \"The Greatest of Rhytm\". He travelled many Latin American countries heading \"his tribe\" (the way he called his orchestra). Tall and thin, he dressed in quite a peculiar way, crowned by a huge-winged hat.
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