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          This song was a must play song by almost all Salsa bands in New York in the weeks following Cheo Feliciano's tragic death.!

          At age ten, in , Millo and her older sisters performed as Anacaona, the first “all-girl dance band” in Cuba.

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        2. This song was a must play song by almost all Salsa bands in New York in the weeks following Cheo Feliciano's tragic death.
        3. In , she became the lead singer for an all-female band called Anacaona, in which she was not only the lead singer but also the woman who.
        4. As the powerhouse of Latin music, it has produced some of the world's best-known musicians and genres, in the form of rumba, son and salsa.

          5. Anacaona (band)

          Anacaona is the name of an all-female orchestra, founded in Havana in the early s by Concepción "Cuchito" Castro Zaldarriaga and her sisters. Eventually, all 11 sisters joined the band.[1] The band was formed during the Machado era when the political situation led to university closings, forcing Cuchito Castro to abandon her studies and her plan to start a dental practice.

          Instead, she chose a different career in by proposing a female septet to challenge the male-dominated son music. At the time, it was believed women were not capable of playing son.[2] The band enjoyed close musical ties with well-known Cuban performers, in particular with Ignacio Piñeiro and Lázaro Herrera of the Septeto Nacional.[3]Graciela, whose brother Machito laid the foundations of Latin Jazz, was Anacaona's lead singer for a decade.[4]

          History

          Cuchito's sisters and friends came together as a group, naming it after the Taino queen Anacaona.

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