ArtistInfo

Manuel Corona

g, 1880-1950 CU
Musician / Composer of Latin
A.k.a. Manuel Corona Raimundo

Manuel Corona Raimundo (Caibarién 17 June 1880 – Marianao, Havana 9 January 1950) was a Cuban trova musician, and a long-term professional rival of Sindo Garay.He came to Havana when the Cuban War of Independence broke out, and worked as a bootblack and a cigar-roller. His supervisor at the cigar factory taught him the guitar, and in 1905 he set up in a café in the red-light district of San Isidro. The district was controlled by the chulo (pimp) Alberto Yarini (1882–1910), who became famous for introducing French prostitutes (putas francesas) willing to perform more salacious acts than even the Cubans were used to. The francesas cut heavily into the profits of the Cuban putas, and the result was a gang war in which Yarini was killed.