Rita Montaner, born Rita Aurelia Fulcida Montaner y Facenda, was a Cuban singer, pianist, actress and star of stage, film, radio and television. In Cuban parlance, she was a vedette, and she was well known in Mexico City, Paris, Miami and New York, where she performed, filmed and recorded on various occasions. She was probably the best-loved female star in Cuba of the period 1920?1960; they called her Rita de Cuba. Though classically trained, her mark was made as a singer of Afro-Cubanist salon...
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