Eusebio Delfín

Who was Eusebio Delfín?

Eusebio Delfín Figueroa was a Cuban trovador musician: a composer, guitarist and singer. He came from a prominent family but with many economical problems, and was trained as an accountant in Cienfuegos, where his family had moved. He also studied guitar and song, and sang in public for the first time in 1916 at the Terry Theatre in Cienfuegos.

Delfín became Director of the Banco Comercial, and married Amalia Bacardi y Cape, a daughter of Emilio Bacardí, the rum magnate, author and an ex-mayor of Santiago de Cuba.