Teté Caturla, born Teresa García Caturla (Remedios, Cuba

Remedios, Cuba

Remedios is a city and municipality located from the northern coast of Cuba, in the center of the island. It is part of the province of Villa Clara. It was declared a City by Isabel the Second, Queen of Spain, when the Island was still a colony...

, 13 October 1937) is a Cuban singer of high quality who sung in, and directed, the famous Cuarteto d'Aida

Cuarteto d'Aida

The Cuarteto d'Aida was a famous Cuban female singing group. It was founded and directed by the pianist Aida Diestro in 1952. Diestro picked four brilliant young singers to form the group: Elena Burke, Moraima Secada and the sisters Omara and Haydée Portuondo...

. She is the daughter of Alejandro García Caturla

Alejandro García Caturla

Alejandro García Caturla was a Cuban composer of art music and creolized Cuban themes.He was born in Remedios. At sixteen he became a second violin of the new Orquesta Sinfonica de La Habana in 1922, where Amadeo Roldán was concert-master . He also began composing at a young age, whilst studying...

, one of the most important Cuban composers of the 1920s and 30s.

As a young woman Teté made her debut for Orquesta Anacaona

Anacaona

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, and in 1963 she joined Cuarteto d'Aida. Both of these were all-female groups. After Aida Diestro

Aida Diestro

Aida Diestro was a Cuban pianist, and the director of a famous choral group. She studied music with her father, the Presbyterian minister Diestro Camejo, and continued in a private conservatory...

, the founder of the quartet, died in 1973, Teté led them, and they toured Panamá

Panama

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 (1978), Grenada

Grenada

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 (1979), México

Mexico

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 (1983), Spain

Spain

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 (1984), Angola

Angola

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 (1986) and Finland

Finland

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 (1987). More recently she toured Argentina

Argentina

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, France

France

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, Japan

Japan

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, Greece

Greece

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and the United States.

After her retirement from the quartet, she formed the group Rumba Tere, for young musicians recently graduated from their schools of music. Her work has always been in the traditional popular music of Cuba. In 2004 the CD Llegó Teté (Bis Music) was highly successful.