Maria Teresa Vera was a Cuban root singer, guitarist and composer who is regarded as the Best Female Trova singer of all time. Maria was born on 6th February 1895 in Guanajay, Havana and from her young age became a member of bohemian trova musician community. Vera began to sing in 1911 at a theater for a tribute to an actor. She attends the great trovador Manuel Corona who advises her and gives her guitar lessons. She sings in Carlos Godínez’s Grupo Típico.
Maria Teresa Vera Career:
Vera met Ignacio Piñeiro and gave him coaching to play the double bass. Follower of the Afro-Cuban religion, she decided to become Santa and leaves the world of music. Absent from the stages and studios until 1936, she reappeared in a Radio Salas program with a cuarteto (quartet) composed of Justa Garcia, Dominica Verges and Lorenzo Hierrezuelo. But the cuarteto disappears after the radio show.
Only then did Hierrezuelo accompany him in a duet which thus lasted more than twenty-five years, during which María Teresa Vera asserted herself as one of the very first voices of Trova. Its most striking composition, Veinte años, is taken up by the greatest Cuban performers. In the mid-1950s, she appeared on television on the historic show El Casino de la Algeria. Tributes to Maria Teresa Vera follow one another but in the early 1960s her health deteriorated and she died in 1965.
Maria Teresa Vera Biography |
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| Real Name | Maria Teresa Vera |
| Birth Date | February 6, 1895 |
| Age | 70 years (age at death) |
| Death | December 17, 1965 |
| Birth Place | Guanajay, Cuba |
| Nationality | Cuban |
| Profession | singer-songwriter, guitarist |
| Religion | Christianity |
| Sun sign | Aquarius |
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| Hair Color | Gray |
| Eye Color | Dark Brown |
| Body Type | Slim |
| Sexual Orientation | Straight |
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| Father | Joaquín Vera Olazabal |
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| What was Paul Carcaterra marital status? (single, married, in relation or divorce) | Married |
| How many children did Paul Carcaterra have? (name) | Four (Josefa Abella Vera, Alfonso Abella Vera, Manuel Abella Vera, Guillermo Abella Vera) |
| Who was Paul Carcaterra husband? (name) | Manuel Abella Fuertes |
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Trivia: Important Facts about Maria Teresa Vera:
- Maria is considered as the all-time greatest Trova singer.
- She belonged to the slave’s community and after independence war in Spain, they moved to Cuba.
- Maria was said to be the one who laid the foundation of Cuban music across the world.
- In 1911, she commenced her journey of singing and sang for the first time in order to provide tribute to an actor.
- Vera died at the age 70 and recorded about 200 songs while played more than a thousand songs in her musical journey.
- Today Goolge Doodle is featuring her and said ”Her lifetime accomplishments in music have a lasting impact and inspired a tribute album, “A María Teresa Vera” (“For María Teresa Vera”), a collection of songs recorded to celebrate her 100th birthday.”
