Chalía Herrera

She had the distinction of being the first Cuban musical artist to be recorded.

She recorded, outside Cuba, numbers from the zarzuela Cádiz in 1898 on unnumbered Bettini cylinders.

Chalía studied singing with Angelo Massanet, then she went to New York to perfect her skills at the School of Opera and Oratorio of Emilio Agramonte.

Later on she studied violin with Laureano Fuentes Matons in Santiago de Cuba.

In 1895 she appeared in the Weber Hall in New York, performing to raise money for the Cuban War of Independence.