Born 1949 in a town called Alturas de Canasi with the name Wilfredo Israel Sardinas, he grew up in Havana, Cuba.

He recorded albums in the 1980s alongside musicians including: Sal Cuevas, Barry Rogers, Mario Rivera, and Sonny Bravo.

Kantor joined the group Tropicana All-Stars in 2003, a twenty-piece orchestra band which performed tribute music hearkening back to the style of his early influence Beny More.

Kantor was born with the name Wilfredo Israel Sardinas in 1949 in Alturas de Canasi, a locale in the Western region of Cuba.

[2][3] Throughout the 1980s he recorded multiple music albums in New York; these were subsequently re-released in 2002 and showcased his vocal talents alongside musicians including: Sal Cuevas, Barry Rogers, Mario Rivera, and Sonny Bravo.

[5] He was featured as the singer on a 2002 album by Juan Pablo Torres y su Super Son which contained new presentations of their prior songs they had made in Cuba years earlier.

[7] He served as vocalist on the 2003 Orlando Batista produced album Orquesta Sensación, which received praise from Latin Beat Magazine as "a dancer's paradise".

[1] Together they released the album Recuerda a Benny Moré in 2004, whose lyrics and style hearkened back to a more popular era of Cuban music from the 1950s under singer Beny More during his days performing at the Tropicana Club in Havana, Cuba.

[9] This was their debut performance, and it received a favorable reception from Latin Beat Magazine: "Lead singer Israel Kantor delivers majestically flora beginning to end".

[9] The group's song "Francisco Guayabal" reached the top 20 chart amongst highest played musical works on the radio in Los Angeles in 2004.