Antonio Abad Lugo Machín (11 February 1903, in Sagua la Grande, Cuba – 4 August 1977, in Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish-Cuban singer and musician.

His early years were difficult: he was forced to work at the age of eight to help pay some of his father's numerous debts.

Machín's ambition was to sing opera, but at the beginning of the 20th century this was difficult for a poor colored Cuban.

[3] In 1930 he went to New York with Don Azpiazú's band, where El manisero (The Peanut Vendor, written by Moisés Simons) was recorded.

The other members were the Puerto Ricans Plácido Acevedo (trumpet), Cándido Vicenty (tres) and Daniel Sánchez (second voice and guitar).

In 1935 he moved to Europe, living in London and Paris before settling in Madrid in the late 1930s, where he would remain until his death.

In Paris, he formed Antonio Machín y su Orquesta, with Simons on piano, and continued to record in the city (where Cuban music had been popular since the late twenties).