Isolina Carrillo (December 9, 1907 – February 21, 1996) was a Cuban composer, singer and pianist. She was a member of the vocal group Conjunto Siboney.
At the age of eleven she made her musical debut replacing a pianist that called in sick in her father’s orchestra. She came from a very musical family; her brothers and father were musicians. She studied in the
Municipal Conservatory of Havana.
In the 1940s, she achieved her greatest recognition as a composer of
bolero
Bolero is a genre of song which originated in eastern Cuba in the late 19th century as part of the trova tradition. Unrelated to the older Spanish dance of the same name, bolero is characterized by sophisticated lyrics dealing with love. It h ...
s,
guaracha
The guaracha () is a genre of music that originated in Cuba, of rapid tempo and comic or picaresque lyrics. The word has been used in this sense at least since the late 18th and early 19th century. Guarachas were played and sung in musical the ...
s and
sones. Her songs included "Fiesta de besos", "Canción sin amor", "Increíble" and the most famous of all her works, "
Dos gardenias", composed in 1945.
This last composition has been covered by many singers such as
Daniel Santos,
Antonio Machin,
Pedro Vargas,
Maria Rita
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,
Ibrahim Ferrer
Ibrahim Ferrer (20 February 1927 – 6 August 2005) was a Cuban singer who played with the group Los Bocucos for nearly forty years. He also performed with Conjunto Sorpresa, Chepín y su Orquesta Oriental, and Mario Patterson. After his re ...
, among others.
References
External links
Trabajores articles(Spanish)
1907 births
1996 deaths
Cuban composers
20th-century Cuban women singers
Cuban women pianists
20th-century Cuban composers
Guaracha songwriters
20th-century Cuban pianists
20th-century women composers
20th-century women pianists
Women in Latin music
Cuban women composers
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