Rita Montaner
Birthday: 1900-08-20 | Place of Birth: CubaRita 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".
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Known For
Acting
Year
Title
Role
1951
Victims of Sin
as Rita
1950
To the Sound of the Mambo
as Rita
1948
Angelitos Negros
as Mercé
