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1899
Singer Siro Rodríguez was born.
09 de Diciembre de 1899
He was born in December 9th, 1899. Being a child he gave proofs of his singing abilities by acting in family parties and meetings. In 1915 took place his first public presentation in a Santiago de Cuba theater when a tribute to trovador Leopoldo Rubalcava was being payed.
At the beginning of his musical career he worked as blacksmith. In 1925 he sang together with Rafael Cueto and Miguel Matamoros in the premiere of what would be the quite popular Trio Matamoros. In 1927 he toured with the trio to the United States, where they recorded their earliest records, getting a flashing success. In 1927 he sang with the outstanding Mexican tenor José Mujica a Mexican song. Besides he played maracas and claves, and composed several songs.
1907
Outstanding pianist and composer Isolina Carrillo was born.
09 de Diciembre de 1907
Isolina Carrillo was born in Havana on December 9, 1907 and died on February 21, 1996. In the 1940s, her musical creations were already popular.
Some of her best known works are Canción sin amor, Sombra que besa, Increíble and Dos Gardenias.
Carrillo also worked as accompanying pianist and a repertoire programmer in the ICRT (Cuban Institute of the radio and the television).
In the last years of her life, she was the main figure, hostess of the restaurant and cultural complex named after her most popular song Dos Gardenias.
1916
Composer Walfrido Guevara was born.
09 de Diciembre de 1916
He was born in Santiago de Cuba on December 9th, 1916 and died on June 23th, 2004.
During the 1930´s he made his debut as author and interpreter of Cuban Trova songs and guarachas. With Raúl Barbarú he made a duo in Santiago de Cuba, from where they moved to Havana, in 1940. Since then they performed in the Mil Diez (1010 Kc) radio station. Later he joined in successive stages to José Antonio Valentino and Santiago Fulleda, until conforming a duo with Juvenal Quesada, in 1947.
Author of songs and boleros: “Un juramento de amor”, “Derrotado corazón”, “Canción del borracho”, “No quiero matarte”; "Del son montuno"; “Qué cinturita”; del cha cha chá: “Bésala y cásate”, and guarachas which have been danced a lot: “Qué buena es la nochebuena”; “Dengue con dengue”. More recently he has performed in trova activities together with Ida Laguardia and Antonio Rodríguez, as accompanist guitarist under the name of Los Idaidos.
1934
Journalist Manuel Márquez Sterling died.
09 de Diciembre de 1934
He was born in Lima, on August 28th, 1872 and died in Washington, on December 9th, 1934.
He was Cuban by law because he was born in the venue of the Cuban embassy in Lima. At the age of ten he settled in Camagüey, where five years later founded El Estudiante magazine, true fact of his journalistic vocation.
He collaborated in El Pueblo and joined the staff of El Camagüeyano, settled by his father. He moved to Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, and there he collaborated El Eco del Comercio and in the Revista de Mérida. Back to Cuba he created the political profile weekly magazine Justicia. He had to travel again to Mexico and worked as correspondent of Havana newspaper La Discusión.
He founded the revolutionary weekly magazine La Lucha. In New York, Gonzalo de Quesada put him in charge of José Martí´s files arrangement. Afterwards, he went to Europe fulfilling propaganda works of the Partido Revolucionario Cubano (Cuban Rvolutionary Party) in Madrid. He collaborated in the Revista Internacional de Ajedrez.
Once the war was finished he wrote in Patria, Cuba Libre and El Fígaro.
He was the first political editor of El Mundo daily newspaper and travelled to Washington as its correspondent. He worked in La Lucha and settled El Heraldo de Cuba and La Nación. Author of a great report on the Mexican Revolution became the book Los últimos días del Presidente Madero (Last Days of President Madero). He was diplomat, and served Cuba in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Perú and United States of America.
He is considered a master of journalism, so the first school of journalism appeared in Cuba was named after him.
1958
Composer and Charanga orchestra conductor, Abelardito Valdés died.
09 de Diciembre de 1958
He was born in Havana on November 7th, 1911 and died on December 9th, 1958. Jose M. Arriete taught him his earliest lessons on solfeggio, theory and flute, but he started playing the güiro in dancing orchestras. Among them Luis Carrillo, where his father, Abelardo Valdés, played the counterbass. He also played in the Tata Pereira, Tata Alfonso, Lopez-Barroso, charangas and, in the hermanos Contreras he played the counterbass. In 1938 he composed his famous Almendra danzón. In 1940 he settled his Almendra Orchestra, and conducting it he travelled to Colombia, Dominican Republic, and other Latin American countries. Almost besides author of: Horchata, Salvaje, Penicilina, and other danzones.
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