Teté Cuevas

María Teresa Cuevas Pereyra. Birth, Ticul, Yucatan, February 5, 1919 - Death, Mexico, D.F. August 16, 2006. Mexican pianist and music director. She was artistically known as "Teté Cuevas." She studied piano in Merida with Rita Milán Cervera and José Rubio Milán. She was an accompanying pianist at the XEFC and then at the XEZ where the announcer Alonso López Méndez "El Vate" baptized her as "La Muñequita Del Piano". There, she played in a noon program directed by Pepe Domínguez and conducted by Arturo García (Arturo de Córdova). In Mérida she met Gonzalo Curiel, who after listening to her play the piano encouraged her to settle in Mexico City. In 1940 she traveled to Mexico City and entered the XEQ as a rehearsal pianist. Later he went to the XEW as an accompanying pianist of Sofía Álvarez and Nicolás Urcelay, with whom he toured North and South America. She accompanied Pedro Vargas, Ana María Fernández, Elvira Ríos, Chabela Durán, Emilio Tuero, Evangelina Elizondo, Hugo Avendaño and many other singers. She was the accompanist pianist of Amparo Montes in the bar "La Cueva" and on tours of the Republic from 1959.