[1][2][3] Her father was Judge Amando González Veranés[1] and her mother, Andrea Manfugás Crombet,[1] was a renowned pianist and teacher.
[1][2][4][3] Manfugás gave her first concert in 1949 in Havana, playing at the Anfiteatro de Avenida del Puerto and being part of the Gonzalo Roig's Municipal Band.
However, later, the organizers convinced him to delay the concert until January 9, 1959, but in this year, Cuba was "in the revolutionary ferment of the triumph" of Fidel Castro's guerrilla movement and Manfugás was not able to play her music at the Auditorium until 1960.
[6] Manfugás conducted diverses tours in Europe (in places like Belgium and Russia[7]) and Asia (in countries like China and Japan[7]),[1] for which she was widely praised.
[6] She also gave a concert as a soloist in the New World Symphony in Miami[1] and was a professor at Kean University of New Jersey, where she taught History of Music.
[1][2][5] In December 2010, the Apogee Foundation on Cultural Center Cuba Ocho of Miami held a ceremony in her honor, although she could not perform, as "she was recovering from a recent surgery".
[1][4][3] In 1955, she gave birth to a son in Spain, Andrés Montes, who was one of the most known and respected sports journalists of both the radio and television in that country and who died in 2009 at age 53.