Merceditas Valdés, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Merceditas Valdés

Cuban singer

Date of Birth: 24-Sep-1922

Place of Birth: Havana, Havana Province, Cuba

Date of Death: 13-Jun-1996

Profession: singer

Nationality: Cuba

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Mercedes Valdés Granit (September 24, 1922 – June 13, 1996), better known as Merceditas Valdés, was a Cuban singer who specialized in Afro-Cuban traditional music.
Under the aegis of ethnomusicologists Fernando Ortiz and Obdulio Morales, Valdés helped popularize Afro-Cuban music throughout Latin America.
In 1949, she became one of the first female Santería singers to be recorded.
Her debut album was released at the start of the 1960s, when the Cuban government nationalized the record industry.
She then went on hiatus before making a comeback in the 1980s with a series of albums entitled Aché, in collaboration with artists such as Frank Emilio Flynn and rumba ensemble Yoruba Andabo.
She also appeared in Jane Bunnett's Spirits of Havana and continued performing until her death in 1996.