Espiridiona Cenda

Alize Espiridiona Cenda del Castillo (14 December 1869 – 11 December 1945), known on stage as Chiquita, was a Cuban dwarf singer and performer.

[2][3] Cenda was married and had one child, which weighed no more than two pounds and died at an early age.

[4] Cenda spoke Spanish, Italian and English.

[4] Cuban author Antonio Orlando Rodríguez won the Premio Alfaguara for his 2008 novel Chiquita, based on the life of Espiridiona Cenda.

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Cenda as sketched by Marguerite Martyn for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, published January 5, 1910