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Rodrigo Prats was one of Cuba's most important composers of zarzuelas (Spanish operetta). Born in Sagua la Grande, Cuba on 7 February 1909, Prats was the son of another important Cuban composer and musician, Jaime Prats. Violinist, pianist, composer, arranger, and orchestral director, Rodrigo Prats directed several orchestras in Havana and served as musical director for radio and TV stations. Prats gained notoriety with the publication “Una rosa de Francia,” a criolla-bolero he composed at age 15. His body of work includes popular music, sainetes, and zarzuelas. Among his most important zarzuelas is "Amalia Batista", and many artists recorded his songs.

Rodrigo Prats joined the faculty of Havana's Studio Sylvia M. Goudie in 1956 after his stint at the Iranzo Conservatory. He died in Havana on 15 September 1980.

Carlos Enrique Prado (1978, Cuba) is a visual artist and professor of visual arts, particularly of ceramics. He is currently Lecturer of Ceramics at the University of Miami's Art and Art History Department.

Throughout his career, he has been working predominantly in sculpture and ceramics, but has also made drawings, paintings, photographs, digital art, installations, interventions, and performances. His works have been focused towards contextual and social commentary, always with a strong anthropological perspective. In 1996 he graduated in sculpture and drawing at the National Academy of Fine Arts "San Alejandro." In 2002 he received a BFA from ISA University of the Arts of Cuba, the most important center of arts education in the country. He also received a MFA from that University in 2008. His works have been exhibited at major art institutions, museums, and galleries in the United States and Europe, and they are part of important private and public collections. He has also been an organizer and curator of several projects of solo and group shows as well as exhibitions of students of his courses.

As a visual artist, he has a very large body of work. Recently, much of his sculptures and installations have been made in ceramics. In this medium has achieved great reputation with first prizes in Ceramics Biennials and works in collections of major museums such as the National Museum of Ceramics in Havana and the ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center, Arizona. He has also been a visiting artist and lecturer at several universities and art schools such as University of Southern California in 2013, Midwestern State University in 2012, Arizona State University in 2011, and University of Alabama in 2010. He has been a visiting professor teaching ceramic courses and demonstration classes, such as summer course taught at University of Mary Washington (Fredericksburg, VA) in 2011, which culminated with an exhibition in one of the major galleries in the city.

Digital art is another medium where Prado has developed much of his recent work, achieving great recognition. The works are the result of a symbiosis between sculpture and digital media, particularly the construction of 3D designs and further processing as photographic images for print. The final digital prints have been part of several exhibitions and have been published in art magazines.

Osvaldo Pradere is a Cuban-born playwright, actor, director and puppeteer who has has performed in Cuba, Spain and the United States. He specializes in bilingual children's theater in New York City.

Visual artist Alberto del Pozo (1945-1992) was born in Santa Clara, Cuba. With his parents, he was exiled to the United States in 1961. He attended Coral Gables High School in Miami and Parsons School of Design and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. From 1970 to 1975, he worked as a costume and set designer for Brooks Van Horn. Returning to Miami in 1976, he dedicated himself to his art. Del Pozo died in Miami at age 46 in 1992.

David L. Powell is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the Columbia Journalism School. He began his professional life as a reporter for the Associated Press in New York, Miami, and Tallahassee. After earning a law degree from Florida State University, he practiced law for thirty years. In his work and through civic organizations he met many Cuban Americans and was moved by the stories of their lives. He began recording interviews about their memories in 2016, which were compiled in the book "Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away: Memories of Early Cuban Exiles."