Blanca rosa gil biography
Blanca Rosa Gil (born August 26, in Perico, Matanzas, Cuba) is a famous Cuban Latin Bolero singer known as 'The Singing Dolly'....
Blanca Rosa Gil is a famous Cuban Latin Bolero singer known as 'The Singing Dolly'.
Early Life
Blanca Rosa Gil was born in a small village called Perico in Matanzas, Cuba on August 26, 1937. She was the youngest child of 10, born in a small home on Fresneda Number 2.
Shortly afterwards the family moves to a neighborhood in Havana called El Narajito. She grew up in a musical family and nearly everybody in the home sang well.
She made her debut in the famous cabaret Ali Bar of Havana, in ; she also acted on radio and TV with great success and worked for Moliner, Panart and Maype.Her father was a tenor and her mother a mezzo-soprano. Of the 10 children, all but the three oldest boys sang. As Gil would later joke that her oldest brothers “Francisco, Reglo and Roberto couldn’t even sing in the shower.
All the other children were blessed by God with beautiful voices.” Her brother Pedro was the first to sing publicly as he would sing with the local big band in town called Orquesta Casino Deportivo in Perico. By age five, Blanca Rosa was the center of attraction in the family since she would readily perform and sing for anybody who would listen.
Later on, she and her two sisters, Rita and Mercedes started performing at sc