Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban composer and pianist, brother of Ernestina.
She made contact with singer Jessica Dragonette, who added some of Lecuona's works to her repertoire.
A great deal of Lecuona's music was first introduced to mass American audiences by Desi Arnaz, a fellow Cuban and Lucille Ball's spouse.
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Lecuona was included as a character in the novel The Island of Eternal Love, by Miami-based Cuban writer Daína Chaviano, together with other important names in Cuban music.
It appeared in the MGM movie, The Cuban Song, with Ernesto Lecuona as musical advisor; Judy Garland sung a fragment of the song in the 1954 film, A Star is Born.