Perucho Figueredo

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name=Perucho Figueredo


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birth_date=1818
birth_place=Bayamo, Cuba
death_date=August 17, 1870
death_place=Cuba

Pedro Felipe Figueredo, mostly known as Perucho, was born in Bayamo, Cuba in 1818. He 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.

He wrote the Cuban national anthem, "El Himno de Bayamo", in 1867.

He was captured during the war and executed on August 17, 1870.

* [http://hdl.handle.net/1802/4195 Himno Bayamés (Letra y música de Pedro Figueredo.) Coleccion arreglada para canto y piano. Arro. no. 2. Por el maestro J. Marin Varona.] From Sibley Music Library Digital Scores Collection