Desi Arnaz Timeline

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Chronological/Timeline: Desi Arnaz (Alfredo)
I am sitting down with a drums by me and when somebody touch me, I play the drums then I say, “BABALOO”, then I stand up and start to tell my history. I am Desi Arnaz. On March 2nd, 1917, I was born, in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. My parents were Dolores de Acha y Desiderio Alberto Arnaz ll. On June 1st, 1934, my family moved to Miami, Florida, after being forced out of our home due to the Cuban Revolution. I was seventeen years old when I became a United States citizen.
On January 15th, 1935, I started to search for a job in Miami to help my family economically. Then I was accepted into a group of musicians called “El Sexteto Siboney” as a guitarist. On December 1st, 1937, I was signed as a singer

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