Orlando Carlos de Aragón Martin was born in Havana, Cuba on December 5, 2018. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as the youngest member of the class in 1939. While en route to his US Navy Deployment, he met Miss Lillian Garcia Nuñez; the woman who became the love of his life and, mother to their eight children. They lived in various locations including Bogota Colombia, before settling in 1952 in Puerto Rico. In the mid-seventies, the family relocated to the US mainland eventually settling in Miami, Florida. Throughout all the years of their marriage they were both aficionados of art and great music and they carted their collection of over 1200 music albums, some dating from 1912 and earlier. They would be very pleased and gratified to know an extensive part of the collection has found a permanent home in the renowned “Diaz Ayala Cuban and Latin American Popular Music Collection” at Florida International University.