Isolina Carrillo

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Isolina Carrillo

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1907|12|09}}

| birth_place = Havana, Cuba

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1996|02|21|1907|12|09}}

| death_place = Havana, Cuba

| occupation = Composer, musician, singer

| associated_acts = Conjunto Siboney

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Isolina Carrillo (December 9, 1907 – February 21, 1996) was a Cuban composer, singer and pianist. She was a member of the vocal group Conjunto Siboney.{{cite web|last1=Díaz Ayala|first1=Cristóbal|title=Conjunto Siboney|url=http://latinpop.fiu.edu/SECCION06S.pdf|website=Encyclopedic Discography of Cuban Music 1925-1960|publisher=Florida International University Libraries|accessdate=6 March 2017|date=Fall 2013}}

At the age of eleven she made her musical debut replacing a pianist that called in sick in her father’s orchestra. She came from a very musical family; her brothers and father were musicians. She studied in the Municipal Conservatory of Havana.

In the 1940s, she achieved her greatest recognition as a composer of boleros, guarachas and sones. Her songs included "Fiesta de besos", "Canción sin amor", "Increíble" and the most famous of all her works, "Dos gardenias", composed in 1945.{{cite book |last1=León |first1=Carmela de |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MmdaAAAAMAAJ |title=Dos gardenias para ti |date=2003 |publisher=Oriente |isbn=978-959-11-0367-3 |location=Santiago de Cuba, Cuba |page=38}} This last composition has been covered by many singers such as Daniel Santos, Antonio Machin, Pedro Vargas, Maria Rita, Ibrahim Ferrer, among others.