Rita Montaner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rita Montaner

Cuban musician

Date of Birth: 20-Aug-1900

Place of Birth: Guanabacoa, Havana Province, Cuba

Date of Death: 17-Apr-1958

Profession: singer, pianist, stage actor, opera singer, film actor

Nationality: Cuba

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Rita Aurelia Fulcida Montaner y Facenda (20 August 1900 – 17 April 1958), 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".Throughout her career, Montaner kept a close personal and professional relationship with two famous musicians from her hometown of Guanabacoa: pianist-singer Bola de Nieve and composer Ernesto Lecuona.