Birth Name:

Merceditas Valdés

Female

Birth Date:

Sun, Sep 24, 1922

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Havana, Havana, Cuba

Age:

101

Zodiac Sign:

Libra

Astrology Data:

Sun

0°

Lib

52'

About Merceditas Valdés

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.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Merceditas Valdés: Sun 0 Libra, Moon 20 Scorpio, Mercury 26 Libra, Venus 16 Scorpio, Mars 6 Capricorn, Jupiter 23 Libra, Saturn 9 Libra, Uranus 10 Pisces, Neptune 17 Leo, Pluto 11 Cancer, Mercury Conjunct Jupiter, Sun Semi Square Venus, Sun Semi Square Neptune, Mercury Sesquiquadrate Uranus, Venus Square Neptune, Mars Square Saturn, Mars Opposition Pluto, Jupiter Sesquiquadrate Uranus, Saturn Quincunx Uranus, Saturn Square Pluto, Uranus Trine Pluto

Categories related to Merceditas Valdés: September 24 births, 1996 deaths, Yoruba-language singers, 1922 births, Cuban Santeríans, 20th-century Cuban women singers, Musicians from Havana

Photo attribution: Solderilla, Habana (per signature), http://afrodiaspores.tumblr.com/post/47108300597/afro-cuban-dancer-merceditas-vald%C3%A9s-1928-96