Margarita Lecuona

She attended the Colegio Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes and the Colegio Sepúlveda in Havana before embarking on her secondary education at the Instituto de La Habana which she left after her first two years.

[citation needed] After performing in a number of stage productions, in 1942, she first created a duo with Olga Luque and then a group called the Lecuona Cuban Girls, performing on stage and on the radio.

"Tabú" gained popularity when sung by Arthur Lyman and Les Baxter while "Babalú" proved successful with the singer Desi Arnaz.

[2] She went on to marry the Argentine actor Pepe Armil in 1947 and moved to Buenos Aires where she settled in 1957.

From there she travelled to Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil and Mexico, performing on radio as well as on the stage.