Sara Rosa González Gómez, Cuban composer and guitarist, was born in the popular Havana neighborhood of Cayo Hueso. She began her musical career studying guitar with Professor Rafael Enrizo (Nené). In 1966, she entered the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory (Rastro Street and Calzada de Belascoaín, Centro Habana, Havana), where she studied viola. She later enrolled in the National School of Art Instructors (216th Street and 7th Avenue, Playa, Havana). Upon graduation, she joined the faculty there, working as a guitar and music theory teacher.

He was part of an occasional duo with Pedro Luis Ferrer and later joined Los Dimos, with Georgia Guerra and Jesús del Valle (Tatica), with whom he sang works by Silvio Rodríguez and Pablo Milanés.

In 1972, she joined the ICAIC Sound Experimentation Group, where, along with Belinda Romeu, she was the first female vocalist. There, she received lessons from Leo Brouwer. She also studied composition, harmony, and orchestration.

Sara González is the founder of the Nueva Trova Movement and is considered one of its main exponents.

He has produced music for film, television, and radio, in addition to participating in several collective albums alongside other figures from the Nueva Trova Movement and the GES.

She has toured Latin American countries, African countries such as Angola, and the former Soviet Union, where she sang in the Kremlin. In Italy, she participated in festivals organized by the newspaper L’Unitá.

In 1981, he participated in the Venezuelan performance of Alejandro García’s (Virulo) son-opera Genesis, which was later revived in Havana. He has also performed in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Brazil, the United States, Canada, Spain, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, France, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, Ireland, Thailand, and Korea. He won the Testimony award at Cubadisco 2002 for “Sin ir más lejos.”

Sara González has shared the stage with Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés, Augusto Blanca, Joan Manuel Serrat, Chico Buarque, Mercedes Sosa, Soledad Bravo, Daniel Viglietti, Pete Seeger, Roy Brown, Pedro Guerra, Beth Carvalho, Liuba María Hevia, Anabel López, Marta Campos and Heidi Igualada, among other artists.

His most notable works include: To my brothers who died on November 27th, Like a caged beast, Shaggy mane, From fathers to sons and alongside the Revolution, The Angel, The Moncada program, Fragment of November 27th, Son of the soul and The fault of the stew (based on the novel by Abel Prieto The flight of the cat), among others.

Discography: Simple verses by José Martí (1975), Four things (1982), With a little love (1987), With trouble and patience (1991), If I were May (1996), Look at me (1999).