Lolita Cuevas was best known as the featured vocalist on the 1941 recording of the Puerto Rican danza La Borinquena by Juanito Sanabria and His Orchestra, but her career embraced far more facets of music from the Caribbean than that record would lead one to expect. Born in Puerto Rica, Cuevas was taken at age two to Haiti, where she was raised and where the family resided for years after. She also had a deep and abiding interest in music from an early age that led her to learn the songs of her friends and classmates. She gave her first concert at age 15 in Port-au-Prince, and subsequently appeared on radio and on-stage, and in night clubs throughout the Caribbean, Central and South America, and the United States. Her album Haitian Folk Songs, recorded with native Haitian guitarist and arranger Frantz Casseus, was initially released in 1953 by Folkways Records and was reissued 32 years later on the Smithsonian Folkways label. ~ Bruce Eder & Craig Harris, Rovi