Graciela Bustos
Felipa Graciela Pérez y Gutiérrez (August 23, 1915 – April 7, 2010),
Accessed April 2010 known by the mononym Graciela, was a Cuban singer of Cuban music and Latin jazz.

Biography

Graciela was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in the Afro-Cuban Jesús María neighborhood. Graciela was the lead vocalist over a period of 10 years in the 1930s and '40s with Orquesta Anacaona, an all-female ensemble, before leaving Cuba for the United States. She performed around the world, recording and sharing the stage with her adoptive older brother, Frank Grillo (known as Machito), who encouraged her to sing. They played alongside Mario Bauzá (originator of the genre of Afro-Cuban Jazz) in the orchestra Afro-Cubans (band), Machito and the Afro-Cubans. She was summoned to New York City in 1943 by Mario Bauzá, when Machito was drafted into the arm ...
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Havana, Cuba
Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.Cuba
''The World Factbook''. Central Intelligence Agency. It is the most populous city, the largest by area, and the List of metropolitan areas in the West Indies, second largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean region. The population in 2012 was 2,106,146 inhabitants, and its area is for the capital city side and 8,475.57 km² for the metropolitan zone. Its official population was 1,814,207 inhabitants in 2023. Havana was founded by the Spanish Empire, Spanish in the 16th century. It served as a springboard for the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish conquest of ...
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