Rita Montaner

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 Cubas 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 AfroCuban salon songs including The Peanut Vendor and Siboney