opera singer
Rita Montaner.
Cuban classically trained singer, pianist and actress (1900–1958)
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About Rita Montaner
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 York, where she performed, filmed and recorded on numerous occasions. She was one of Cuba's most popular artists between the late 1920s and 1950s, renowned as Rita de Cuba. Though classically trained as a soprano for zarzuelas, her mark was made as a singer of Afro-Cuban salon songs including "The Peanut Vendor" and "Siboney".
Everything about Rita Montaner →- Occupation
- opera singer, pianist, stage actor, film actor
- Citizenship
- Cuba
- Born
- August 20, 1900, May 22, 1900
- Died
- April 17, 1958