Giovanni R. Grullart

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Giovanni R. Grullart was born in Havana, Cuba, where he started his career at the age of six in a duo act with his sister Palmira. His first musical was Pinocchio, where he played ...view moreGiovanni R. Grullart was born in Havana, Cuba, where he started his career at the age of six in a duo act with his sister Palmira. His first musical was Pinocchio, where he played the part of Jiminy Cricket in the Fausto Theater directed by the famous composer Isolina Carrillo. Performing with the best artists of the era like Maria Teresa Vera , Sindo Garay, Trio Matamoros, La Sonora Matancera, Miguelito Valdes, Las Anaqaona. Giovanni and his sister go separate ways as she went on to be teacher and he became the character Negrito Giovanni, with accomplished success thanks to the support of his parents Jesus and Juana. He performed at the Bam Bu with Celia Cruz, and at the age of sixteen, he was hired by the Tropicana Cabaret as part of the Josephine Baker Show and was a huge hit at Ali Bar together with the incredible legendary Benny More. Giovanni was made an exclusive feature on all the TV shows by Pumarejo, where he became the favored among TV audiences. The journalist Agustin Tamargo in the magazine Gente wrote “the most moving moments in Cuban television are the ones where Giovanni was on stage.” He starts to travel in USA, St. Domingo, Puerto Rico, Mexico, where he acted in the movie Rumba Caliente with Lidia Prado and Resort. He travels to Central and South America where he marries and creates the duo Giovanni and Nina. They travel to Canada then to New York to start performing with the Perez Prado Revue, La Lupe, Lola Flores, Jorge Mistral, Tito Puente at the Palladium in Broadway, and Tony Bennett in Boston. The culmination of Giovanni’s career was when he performed at Carnegie Hall accompanied by the iconic Baserba Soler in1969.view less