Role added by kamsismith on September 7, 2023
Rita Aurelia Fulcida Montaner y Facenda, known as Rita Montaner, was a Cuban singer, pianist, and actress. In Cuban parlance, she was a vedette (a star) 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".
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