Famous People with Name Vera

Vera Florence Bradford            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Vera Florence Bradford: was an Australian classical pianist and teacher, with a very long career. Her playing was admired for its depth and beauty of tone, classical unity and tremendous power.Vera Bradford was born in Melbourne to a musical family. Her mother Edith was a pianist, and her father Frederick and brother Cec were violinists. She started learning the piano at the age of seven, and she graduated from the University of Melbourne Conservatorium in 1927, with the highest honours. In 1928 she took up a scholarship with Percy Grainger in Chicago. (Grainger and his wife Ella became close friends of Vera’s, and Ella always stayed with Vera on Percy's visits to Australia.) She also studied at the Chicago Musical College with Rudolph Ganz and Alexander Raab. It was Raab who introduced her to the technique that made her famous, the 'arm weight' technique of the Russian teacher Theodor Leschetizky, which she had first experienced when seeing Benno Moiseiwitsch perform in Melbourne in the 1920s. It was this which developed the big tone and control that became a feature of her performances of the works of Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Liszt. Raab insisted she not play the piano for a year, so that she could unlearn her previous techniques, and practise with the piano lid down.

Michael Lorenzo-Vera            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Michael Lorenzo-Vera: (born on 28 January 1985) is an French professional golfer.

Yvonne Vera            Origin/Culture/Country: Zimbabwe

Yvonne Vera: was an award-winning author from Zimbabwe. Her novels are known for their poetic prose, difficult subject-matter, and their strong women characters, and are firmly rooted in Zimbabwe's difficult past. For these reasons, she has been widely studied and appreciated by those studying postcolonial African literature.

Cris De Vera            Origin/Culture/Country: Philippines

Cris De Vera: a Filipino actor who was typecast as Japanese in most of his films because of his Japanese features.de Vera made his first movie after World War II when war struck Manila in Death March, a film by Leopoldo Salcedo with Philippine Pictures, about a Prisoner of War when the Japanese invaded the Philippines and made a Death March from Bataan.

María Teresa Vera            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

María Teresa Vera: was a Cuban guitarist and singer-songwriter. She was an outstanding example of the Cuban trova movement.[1]She started her career as a singer in 1911 in a theatre where she sang the criolla Mercedes of Manuel Corona. Her first guitar teacher was the cigar-roller José Díaz. Manuel Corona continued her musical education by explaining such things as the different methods for first and second guitar, and eventually taught her his compositions. That was without question of the greatest benefit to the young girl.

Maikel Folch Vera            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Maikel Folch Vera: is a left-handed pitcher for the Cuban national baseball team. Folch plays for Ciego de Ávila in the Cuban National Series, where he posted a league-low 2.09 ERA during the 2004-05 season, compiling a 10-0 record.