Julio Cueva

Julio Bartolomé Cueva Díaz (born April 12, 1897 in Trinidad , † December 30, 1975 in Havana ) was a Cuban trumpeter and composer.

Cueva made his debut as a cornet player before he was ten years old, later belonged to the banda municipal of Santa Clara and toured with the theater company of Arquimedes Pous . In 1923 he founded the Banda Municipal de Trinidad , which he directed until 1929. That year he went to Havana, where he appeared as a soloist with the Orquesta Hermanos Palau and the orchestras of Moises Simons and Don Aspiazu . In the 1930s he made recordings with Oscar Calle Et Sus Orchester Cubain .

He then traveled to the USA and Europe. In Paris in 1934 he led an orchestra in a Cubano Tipico nightclub for several months . After all, he headed a chapel of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War . In 1939 he returned to France. There he was arrested and spent more than two months in a French concentration camp in Argelès-sur-Mer. In May 1939 he finally traveled back to Cuba, where he founded his own band again in 1944.

Along with Ziggy Elman , Cueva is considered to be the most important representative and promoter of Afro-Cuban music in the 1940s. With his band he helped musicians like the singer Orlando Guerra and the pianist René Hernández to their breakthrough.

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SURNAME	Cueva, Julio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cueva Díaz, Julio Bartolomé
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Cuban trumpeter and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 12, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Trinidad
DATE OF DEATH	December 30, 1975
Place of death	Havana