From a very young age he showed his interest in music. Already at the age of twelve he competed in a radio program identified as the Supreme Court of Art in which he interpreted a Mexican corrido. As time went by, he stood out as a great composer and a very peculiar interpreter. He was one of the promoters of the feeling movement in Cuban popular music.

#S1Los Pinos Neighborhood

Los Pinos is one of the Popular Councils of the municipality of Arroyo Naranjo.  Since 1837 an engineer who had arrived in Havana, specialized in railroad exploitation, considered Los Pinos as a strategic zone for the creation of recreational and rest farms. In the beginning, the population was mostly made up of Spanish, Chinese, North American, Canadian and German emigrants. In Havana's Los Pinos neighborhood is the José Antonio Méndez Community Cultural Center, an institution that works to bring culture and its different manifestations closer to all residents of the area. This House is located in the area where the famous composer and performer José Antonio Méndez was born and lived.