• Anacaona is the name of an all-female orchestra, founded in Havana in the early 1930s by Concepción "Cuchito" Castro Zaldarriaga and her sisters. Eventually...
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  • Anacaona was a Taíno queen. Anacaona may also refer to: Anacaona (band), a Cuban band Anacaona (insect), a genus of coneheads in the tribe Copiphorini...
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  • Adventures of Anacaona, Cuba's Legendary All-Girl Dance Band by Alicia Castro with Ingrid Kummels, US edition (from German and Spanish) (2007) Anacaona: The Amazing...
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    all-female Orquesta Anacaona. Graciela served as the lead singer of the Afro-Cubans for a year before Machito returned to front the band. Graciela stayed...
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    holdout during the Spanish conquest of Hispaniola until the Taíno queen Anacaona, who was born in the town, was captured and killed by the Spaniards in...
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  • (2008) Djohu Blakawout Koule Sou Do'm Zang Yo Afrikayiti Na woule Lakay Anacaona Tchaka Mizik Tande Kri A Yo "Bélo". RFI Musique. July 2008. Archived from...
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  • (Grand Quartier des Forces Armée d'Haiti), Champ de Mars, Port-au-Prince Anacaona Military Base, Léogâne. Previously housing the South Korean Army contingent...
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    Orquesta de Ernesto Duarte, Gloria Matancera, Sonora Caracas and Orquesta Anacaona. From 1947, she started to sing in Havana's most popular cabarets: Tropicana...
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    department is part of the Xaragua kasika under the leadership of Bohecio and Anacaona. The settlement of Yakimèl was in the area of actual Jacmel City. Jacmel...
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    pianist Frank Emilio Flynn. From 1952–1953, she sang for the Orquesta Anacaona, and later in 1953 both sisters joined (together with Elena Burke and Moraima...
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    vocalist over a period of 10 years in the 1930s and '40s with Orquesta Anacaona, an all-female ensemble, before leaving Cuba for the United States. She...
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    1 October 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2014. Danticat, Edwidge (2005). "Anacaona, Golden Flower". Journal of Haitian Studies. 11 (2). New York: Scholastic...
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    broke all sales records in the Latino music market. The album included: "Anacaona" and "Mi Triste Problema" During the 1970s, Feliciano recorded fifteen...
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    de Ases, Chappottín joined several conjuntos: América, Gloria Cubana, Anacaona (directed by Concepción Castro), Azul (directed by Chano Pozo), Los Jóvenes...
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  • singer on the Orquesta Hatuey of William Manzano and with the Orquesta Anacaona. In 1944 he went to San Juan, Puerto Rico, to sing with the Orquesta of...
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  • led the all-female Cuban band Anacaona on a tour of Europe in 1934. In 1935 he played with Sam Wooding and led his own bands from 1935 into the 1940s;...
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    communities of cimarrónes—literally, 'wild animals'. By the 1530s, cimarrón bands had become so numerous that in rural areas the Spaniards could only safely...
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  • fashion and modelling and in 2004 won a beauty pageant contest crowned Miss Anacaona. She also took part in TV show Action Lights, Camera presenting a segment...
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    presidency in Haiti Magloire Ambroise – hero of the Haitian Independence Anacaona – Taíno cacica (chief) at the time of arrival of Christopher Columbus Sanité...
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    There is currently only one recruit depot used for basic training, the Anacaona Base, located on a former MINUSTAH South Korean Army battalion base in...
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  • Subsequently transferred to genus Euryphallus. Notocyphus anacaona Rodriguez & Pitts, 2012 Wasp Anacaona A spider wasp from the Dominican Republic, "Named after...
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  • Ventures La India Canela Charanga Habanera Grupo Niche Kinito Mendez Coco Band Anacaona Reasons Orchestra Taxi Kreol Antonio Rivas Andy Palacio Joe Arroyo y...
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    Bracknell. The Salsa Sisters, inspired by the Cuban band Anacaona, Cuba's First All-Girl Dance Band, music and lyrics by Tarek Merchant, book by Linda...
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    unknown Richard Amerike, English merchant and patron of John Cabot (b. 1445) Anacaona, Taino queen and poet (b. 1474) 1504 January 9 – Gaspare Nadi, Italian...
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  • latum Canthidium manni Canthidium sladeni Canthidium viride Canthochilum anacaona Canthon angularis Canthon daguerrei Canthon deplanatus Canthon edentulus...
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  • latum Canthidium manni Canthidium sladeni Canthidium viride Canthochilum anacaona Canthon angularis Canthon daguerrei Canthon deplanatus Canthon edentulus...
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