A Cuban singer with silver tooth performs a song with his band colleagues “Los Mambises de Cuba” in front of “Merceria La Muñequita Azul” in the downtown of Havana (Cuba).

The term mambises refers to Cuban independence soldiers who fought against Spain in the Ten Years’ War (1868-1878) and Cuban War of Independence (1895-1898). Those revolutionaries consisted of Cubans from all social classes including free blacks, slaves, and mulattos fighting for their freedom.