Carmelina Delfin was a Cuban

Cubans

Cubans or Cuban people are the inhabitants or citizens of Cuba. Cuba is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds...

 composer and pianist. Delfin was born in Havana

Havana

Havana is the capital city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of — making it the largest city in the Caribbean region, and the most populous...

 and in the 1920s performed as a soloist with Ernesto Lecuona

Ernesto Lecuona

Ernesto Lecuona y Casado was a Cuban composer and pianist of Canarian father and Cuban mother, and worldwide fame. He composed over six hundred pieces, mostly in the Cuban vein, and was a pianist of exceptional quality....

 in his Ernesto Lecuona Symphonic Orchestra. She played at the 1943 Cuban Liberation Day concert at Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....

and at numerous other concerts, often performing her own works.

Works

Delfin wrote piano works and lyric-romantic songs including:

• Al recordar tu nombre
• 12 Compositiones