Soloists and musicians

Fermín Cedrés Hernández

A Tegueste musician, composer and conductor remembered for Lo Divino, his religious arrangements and his musical teaching in Tegueste and La Laguna.

Period

1890-1927

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Teobaldo Power

Teobaldo Power y Lugo-Viña

A Tenerife-born composer, pianist and concert performer whose Cantos Canarios turned popular materials from the archipelago into academic repertoire.

Period

1860-1884

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Santiago Tejera Ossavarry

A Gran Canaria-born composer of zarzuela and regionalist music, author of a repertory that links stage writing, island identity and Canarian popular forms.

Period

1866-1936

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Juan Reyes Bartlet

A musician from Puerto de la Cruz, band director and composer linked to the choral, lyrical and popular repertoire of the town.

Period

1910-1967

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partially-verified

Valentina la de Sabinosa

Valentina Hernández Rodríguez

A traditional singer from Sabinosa whose voice became associated with recorded transmission of El Hierro repertoire.

Period

1976

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Manuel Bonnín Guerín

An instrumental musician, teacher and composer from Tenerife whose chamber and piano works became closely associated with the Real Academia Canaria de Bellas Artes.

Period

1918-1993

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Néstor Álamo

Néstor Álamo Hernández

A Gran Canaria composer, writer and researcher whose musical work became associated with twentieth-century Canarian popular song.

Period

1930-1994

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Enrique González Bethencourt

Founder and director of Afilarmónica NiFú-NiFá, a decisive figure in the musical consolidation of Tenerife carnival.

Period

1935-2010

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Luis Cobiella Cuevas

A La Palma-born composer and central figure in the island’s musical and cultural life, associated with the Bajada de la Virgen and the Canary Islands Prize for Fine Arts and Performance.

Period

1945-2013

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María Mérida

María Mérida Pérez

An El Hierro singer of Canarian folklore whose voice projected island songbook repertoires on national and international stages.

Period

1937-2022

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Juan Hidalgo Codorniu

A Gran Canaria-born composer and experimental artist, a pioneer of electroacoustic music in Spain and founder of ZAJ.

Period

1958-2018

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Alfredo Kraus

Alfredo Kraus Trujillo

A light lyric tenor born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, associated with bel canto and French repertoire and an international opera career.

Period

1956-1999

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Mary Sánchez

María Dolores Sánchez Ramírez

A Gran Canaria singer specialising in Canarian folklore, linked to Néstor Álamo, Los Bandama, Las Canteras and Gran Canaria popular repertoire.

Period

1951-2015

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Totoyo Millares

Luis Millares Sall

A Gran Canaria timple player, teacher, composer, researcher and disseminator recognised with the 2015 Canary Islands Prize for Popular Culture.

Period

1954-2022

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Juan José Falcón Sanabria

A Gran Canaria-born composer and music teacher whose choral, symphonic and symphonic-choral work occupies a central place in contemporary Canarian music.

Period

1954-2015

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Dacio Ferrera

A Canarian folk singer remembered for Tenderete, his time with Los Sabandeños and his reference voice in the island repertoire.

Period

1970-2007

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Lothar Siemens Hernández

Lothar Georg Siemens Hernández

A Gran Canaria musicologist, composer and music documentalist who researched, edited and disseminated musical creation from the Canary Islands.

Period

1972-2017

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Braulio

Braulio Antonio García Bautista

A Gran Canaria singer-songwriter and singer from Santa María de Guía, Spain’s 1976 Eurovision entrant and a Latin-ballad figure with a career across the Canary Islands, Spain, the United States and Latin America.

Period

1971

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Luis Morera

Luis Morera Felipe

A singer, songwriter and creator from La Palma, lead voice of Taburiente, whose musical work connects Nueva Canción Canaria, roots music, landscape, identity and defence of nature.

Period

1974

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Caco Senante

Juan Carlos Senante Mascareño

A Tenerife singer linked to Nueva Canción Canaria, singer-songwriter culture and popular music with a salsa projection.

Period

1971

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José Vélez

José Velázquez Jiménez

A Gran Canaria singer born in Telde, linked to melodic ballad, Vino griego and Bailemos un vals, with national and international projection from the 1970s.

Period

1974

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Rogelio Botanz

Rogelio Botanz Parra

A singer-songwriter born in Legazpi and based in Tenerife since 1978, co-founder of Taller Canario de Canción and a key figure in combining singer-songwriter music, Canarian sounds and island cultural content.

Period

1985

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Enrique Mateu

Enrique Mateu de Villavicencio

A Canarian composer, producer and musician linked to Gran Canaria, founder of ARTENARA and a pioneer in applying technology to live performance.

Period

1975

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Benito Cabrera

A timple player, composer and producer linked to Lanzarote who has taken the timple into symphonic music, fusion and contemporary Canarian song.

Period

1997

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Rosana

Rosana Arbelo Gopar

A Lanzarote singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Arrecife, author of Lunas rotas and an internationally projected figure of Spanish-language authorial pop.

Period

1994

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Domingo Rodríguez «El Colorao»

Domingo Rodríguez Oramas

A Fuerteventura timple player born in La Vega de Tetir, also trained in classical guitar, who has developed a career in concert performance, teaching and Canarian roots repertoire.

Period

1990

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Olga Cerpa

Olga Cerpa García

A Gran Canaria singer linked to Mestisay since 1986, with work connecting Canarian roots music, fado, bolero, Latin American song and Atlantic world music.

Period

1986

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Pedro Guerra

Pedro Manuel Guerra Mansito

A Tenerife singer-songwriter born in Güímar, linked to Taller Canario de Canción and to the national expansion of singer-songwriter music from Madrid.

Period

1982

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José Antonio Ramos

A Gran Canaria timple player who expanded the language of the timple towards jazz, flamenco, Celtic music and other world-music languages.

Period

1989-2008

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Arístides Moreno

Arístides Moreno Medina

A Gran Canaria singer-songwriter born in Gáldar, active since the mid-1990s, whose music combines authorial song, humour, social criticism, Atlantic rhythms and a distinctive view of Canary Islands issues.

Period

1995

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Fajardo

José Antonio Fajardo Rodríguez

A Majorero singer-songwriter based in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, active since 2009 between singer-songwriter music and alternative folk.

Period

2009

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Ale Acosta

Alejandro Acosta

A Lanzarote producer and musician who moved through Mojo Project and Fuel Fandango before opening a solo phase with El Porvenir.

Period

2004

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El Guincho

Pablo Díaz-Reixa

The artistic project of Gran Canaria musician Pablo Díaz-Reixa, centred on electronics, tropical pop and contemporary production.

Period

2007

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Said Muti

A Gran Canaria singer-songwriter, singer and guitarist linked to songwriter rock and to a solo recording project with backing band.

Period

2013

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Don Patricio

Patricio Martín Díaz

A rapper and singer from El Hierro who brought Canarian trap and urban pop to a broad audience with Contando lunares and a series of high-reach collaborations.

Period

2011

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Cruz Cafuné

Carlos Bruña Zamorín

A Tenerife rapper and singer who turned BNMP, Maracucho Bueno Muere Chiquito, Moonlight922 and Me Muevo Con Dios into one of the most visible trajectories in Canarian urban music.

Period

2012

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Bejo

Borja Jiménez Mérida

A Tenerife rapper and composer known for wordplay, humour and a career that moved from Locoplaya to solo work.

Period

2006

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Ana Guerra

Ana Alicia Guerra Morales

A Tenerife singer who emerged from Operación Triunfo 2017, with a pop career built on hit singles, EPs and studio albums.

Period

2017

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Sara Socas

Sara Socas Martín

A Tenerife rapper and singer who moved from freestyle battles to her own catalogue of rap and urban music, with TFN-MAD as her first album.

Period

2017

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Ptazeta

Zuleima del Pino González González

A Gran Canaria rapper and singer who moved from freestyle and social networks to become one of the visible voices in Spanish trap and urban pop.

Period

2019

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Valeria Castro

Valeria Castro Rodríguez

A La Palma singer-songwriter born in Los Llanos de Aridane, known for an intimate writing style that moved from social-media covers to the success of Chiquita, Con cariño y con cuidado and el cuerpo después de todo.

Period

2015

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Julia Rodríguez

A singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Fuerteventura who combines Canarian folklore, singer-songwriter music and jazz in a contemporary roots language.

Period

2024

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Quevedo

Pedro Luis Domínguez Quevedo

A Gran Canaria singer in the Latin urban scene who moved from early studio work and viral songs to sustained international projection.

Period

2020

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