Guillot biography
Guillot biography
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Olga Guillot
Cuban singer (1922–2010)
Musical artist
Olga Guillot (October 9, 1923 – July 12, 2010[1]) was a Cuban singer who was known as the "Queen of Bolero".[2] She was a native of Santiago de Cuba.[2]
Biography
Daughter of Catalan-Jewish[3] immigrants who moved to Cuba, her father was a tailor and her mother was a seamstress.[4] Olga Guillot was born in Santiago de Cuba, and her family moved to Havana when she was five years old.[2] As a teenager, she and her sister, Ana Luisa, performed as the "Duo Hermanitas Guillot."[2] It wasn't until 1945 that her talent as a bolero singer was discovered, when Facundo Rivero, an influential man in the Cuban music scene of the era, heard her sing for the first time and helped her make her professional singing debut at a famous Havana night club.
Soon after, Guillot met Miguelito Valdés, who took her to New York City, where Guillot was able to record her first a