Jamaican Famous Names Starting with Letter G

Was a Cuban drummer who also played timbales (a traditional charanga instrument played with sticks a

Was a Cuban drummer who also played timbales (a traditional charanga instrument played with sticks and hands) who was a major figure in the Cuban music scene for more than fifty years and is, debatably, the one who pioneered Cuban "Be-bop" jazz drumming.[1]

Was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín.

Was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín.A one-time supporter of the Castro regime, Cabrera Infante went into exile to London in 1965. He is best known for the novel Tres Tristes Tigres (literally "three sad tigers", but published in English as Three Trapped Tigers), which has been compared favorably to James Joyce's Ulysses.

Was a Cuban painter. His first studies took place in his native city; in 1868, his parents sent him

Was a Cuban painter. His first studies took place in his native city; in 1868, his parents sent him to the United States, as the family's support for Cuban independence was thought to be endangering his life. He worked as a colorist in a photography studio in New York City for a time, before opening his own painting studio. He became famous for his portraits. In 1883, he returned to Cuba, settling for some time in Havana before moving to France, where he lived for the rest of his life. Besides painting portraits, Collazo also produced landscapes and genre scenes. Some of his work may be seen in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana.

Is a Puerto Rican television reporter and news anchorman.Torres' brother, Carlitos, was a show host

Is a Puerto Rican television reporter and news anchorman.Torres' brother, Carlitos, was a show host at a local radio station in Ponce. Torres tagged along one night and he was impressed by the equipment at the station. Torres was sent by his brother Carlo

Was a Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist who popularized that guajira style of Cuban music from t

Was a Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist who popularized that guajira style of Cuban music from the 1930s through the 1960s. His languid, melancholy, intensely lyrical guajiras and his elegant, stylish singing made him popular throughout Latin America, where he is still revered.

Is a Cuban professional boxer, who completely dominated as an amateur the bantamweight (– 54 kg) d

Is a Cuban professional boxer, who completely dominated as an amateur the bantamweight (– 54 kg) division at the onset of the 21st century.

Is a Cuban boxer who won the gold medal at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics in the Bantamweight (54

Is a Cuban boxer who won the gold medal at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics in the Bantamweight (54 kg) class. Rigondeaux is a seven-time (2000-06) Cuban national champion at bantamweight. He currently claims an amateur record of nearly 400 fights with t

Was a Cuban novelist. A double exile, writing in reaction both to Cuba's totalitarian regime and to

Was a Cuban novelist. A double exile, writing in reaction both to Cuba's totalitarian regime and to the indifference of Cuban-American exiles bent on achieving the American Dream, Rosales created some of the best Cuban literature of the second half of the twentieth century, garnering comparisons to Carlos Montenegro and Reinaldo Arenas.

Was a fellow Cuban revolutionary alongside Fidel Castro who later became an imprisoned dissident of

Was a fellow Cuban revolutionary alongside Fidel Castro who later became an imprisoned dissident of the government. Arcos has been described as "a symbol of the opposition, and the dean of the opposition"