Perucho Figueredo
Pedro Felipe Figueredo (18 February 1818 – 17 August 1870), mostly known as Perucho, was a Cuban poet, musician, and freedom fighter of the 19th century. In the 1860s, he was active in the planning of the Cuban uprising against the Spanish known as the Ten Years' War. Figueredo was born in Bayamo, Cuba.
Also recorded as Pedro Figueredo · Pedro Felipe Figueredo · Pedro Felipe Figueredo y Cisneros · Pedro Felipe Figueredo Cisneros
Perucho Figueredo
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- Name
- Perucho Figueredo
- Born
- 18 February 1818
- Birthplace
- Bayamo, Cuba
- Died
- 17 August 1870
- Place of death
- Oriente Province, Cuba
- Full name
- Pedro Felipe Figueredo y Cisneros.
- Nationality
- Cuba.
- Occupation
- composer, lawyer and poet.
- Known for
- El Himno de Bayamo.
- Languages
- Spanish.
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Pedro Felipe Figueredo (18 February 1818 – 17 August 1870), mostly known as Perucho, was a Cuban poet, musician, and freedom fighter of the 19th century. In the 1860s, he was active in the planning of the Cuban uprising against the Spanish known as the Ten Years' War. Figueredo was born in Bayamo, Cuba.
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He wrote the Cuban national anthem, El Himno de Bayamo, in 1867. He was captured during the war and executed on 17 August 1870 in Santiago de Cuba. His daughter Candelaria Figueredo became a hero of the uprising by carrying the new independent Cuban flag into battle at Bayamo in 1868.
Monument of Pedro Figueredo Cisneros (Perucho) at Santa Ifigenia, Santiago de Cuba. Left the text of the Cuban national anthem.
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• Name — Perucho Figueredo • Born — 18 February 1818 • Birthplace — Bayamo, Cuba • Died — 17 August 1870 • Place of death — Oriente Province, Cuba
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1818
Perucho Figueredo born at Bayamo.
1870
Perucho Figueredo died at Santiago de Cuba.
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Perucho Figueredo. 2010, Cuban Culture and Cultural Relations, 1959- : The Vertical Archive of the Casa de las Américas, Part 5: Politics and HistoryCrossref registry
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