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Place of Birth: Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay
About Rosa Luna
- Rosa Luna (June 20, 1937 – June 13, 1993) was a Uruguayan dancer.
- She was considered to be a living legend of Uruguayan dance.The daughter of Ceferina Luna, a poor washerwoman of African descent, she was born Amelia Luna in Montevideo.
- Seven of her siblings died of malnutrition.
- When she was nine, her stepfather sent her to work as a maid for wealthy people.
- She later began performing as a vedette dancer, performing candombe dance in the Uruguayan Carnival.
- She began performing with various groups, later establishing her own candombe group.She participated in a radio program about the carnival and performed in theatre productions and shows in cafés.
- She also wrote articles for newspapers.
- Luna performed in various South American countries, as well as in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Australia, Spain, Italy, the United States and Canada.She was married twice: her second husband was Raúl Abirad.
- In 1988, she published an autobiography Sin tanga y sin tongo, with Abirad as co-author.Luna died of a heart attack at the age of 55 while performing in Canada.In 2017, a series of performances by candombe groups and works of art inspired by Luna were presented to mark the 80th anniversary of her birth.
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