The Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) is a social organization with cultural and artistic purposes, founded in 1961 by Cuban National Poet Nicolás Guillén. Miguel Barnet serves as its current president, and this organization includes the Musicians Association among its five associations.

Among its objectives are to stimulate, protect, and defend intellectual and artistic creation, as well as to recognize the broadest possible freedom of creation.

The UNEAC Musicians Association brings together musicians, performers, musicologists, composers, and musical authors. Its structure is guided by the work of a President and three Vice Presidents, who are elected at the Congress level. It also comprises an executive committee comprised of fourteen accredited artists selected from the association itself.

The current president is Guido López-Gavilán; the vice presidents are Marta Campos, Alicia Valdés Cantero, and María Felicia Pérez. Other members of the Musicians’ Association include Adalberto Álvarez, Yasek Manzano, Ángel Bonne, José Aquiles Virreyes Rodríguez, Ulises Hernández Mondragones, Reynaldo Montesinos Muñoz, Juan Piñera, and Álvaro Collado Martínez, among other prominent Cuban musicians.

In 2011, the Musicians Association awarded the 50th Anniversary Medal of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) to Gilberto Aldanás, Esther Borja, Leo Brouwer, Agustín Díaz Cartaya, Rosa Fornés, Huberal Herrera, Amelia Martí, Jesús Ortega, César Portillo de la Luz, Omara Portuondo, Cuca Rivero, Mario Romeu, Roberto Sánchez Ferrer, Marta Valdés, Chucho Valdés, Rafael García, María Teresa Linares, Domingo Aragú, Electo Silva and Alfredo Diez Nieto for outstanding artistic careers and contributions to national culture.