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López, Edmundo
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Musician Edmundo López was born in 1922 in Victoria de las Tunas, Oriente Province, Cuba. At age 12, he began his musical studies in Havana and later traveled to New York City and London, England to complete his advanced studies. He taught as a music professor at the Universidad de Santiago de Cuba in the 1960s and traveled widely to deliver seminars and talks on Cuban music and musical theory. López also published several works and bibliographies on Cuban music. He died in New York City in 1992.