Question: Caliente featured which Cuban artist that recieved the National Medal of Arts in 1994?

Context articles: Juan Francisco Elso
Celia Cruz
Martha Jiménez
José Manuel Fors
José Villa Soberón
Los Carpinteros
Caliente (TV series)
Manuel Rodulfo Tardo
Antonio Machín
José Martí (Lopez)

Juan Francisco Elso (August 1956 – 1988), born Juan Francisco Elso Padilla in Havana, Cuba was a Cuban artist.
 He created art in a variety of media, such as drawing, painting, engraving, and sculpture, and also did installations.
 In 1972, he finished his studies in the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes “San Alejandro” in Havana.
 From 1972–1976, he studied in Escuela Nacional de Arte in Havana.
 He was also a teacher at 20 de Octubre School of Arts during the 1970s and 1980s.
Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso, also known by her stage name Celia Cruz (Havana, Cuba, October 21, 1925 – Fort Lee, USA, July 16, 2003), was a Cuban singer of Latin music.
 She was known for her powerful voice and her rhythm-centric musical style.
 She was the most popular Latin artist of the 20th century, gaining twenty-three gold albums during her career.
 US President Bill Clinton awarded her the National Medal of Arts in 1994.
 She was renowned internationally as the "Queen of Salsa", "La Guarachera de Cuba", as well as "The Queen of Latin Music".
Martha Petrona Jiménez is a Cuban artist working in sculpture, ceramics, and painting.
 Her atelier is in Camagüey, Cuba, at the Plaza del Carmen, where several of her life-sized bronze statues are installed.
 Jiménez was one of the first graduates of the Cuban Art Instructors' School, graduating with the first class in 1971.
 She won the UNESCO Distinction for the National Culture in 1997, and was recognised at the 2010 Shanghai Biennale.
 She also was awarded a prize at the 5th International Sculpture Symposium in Turkey in 2011 for her statue "La Gineta".
 Her works are found in several private collections around the world.
José Manuel Fors is a contemporary Cuban artist born in Havana in 1956.
 His work is principally supported by the installation and the handling of photography as a support for his instalative practice.
 His first artistic forays, during the early eighties, were part of what has been considered as "The Renaissance of Cuban Art".
 His artworks have been shown in renowned museums and galleries in the United States, Europe and Cuba.
José Ramón Villa Soberón (born September 2, 1950, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba) is a Cuban artist, particularly known for his public sculptures around Havana.
 He studied at the "Escuela Nacional de Arte" (English: The National School of Art ) in Havana, Cuba and the Academy of Plastic Arts in Prague.
 He is a professor at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana.
 His sculptures, paintings, engravings, drawings and designs are held by the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana, and in 1996 he was one of the selected artist in the second "Trienal Americana de Escultura" in Argentina.
Los Carpinteros is a Cuban artist collective founded in Havana in 1992 by Marco Antonio Castillo Valdes, Dagoberto Rodriguez Sanchez, and Alexandre Arrechea (who left the group in 2003).
 In 1994 they decided "to renounce the notion of individual authorship and refer back to an older guild tradition of artisans and skilled laborers” in an attempt to emphasize their belief that art always, to some extent, involves collaboration.
 Both Valdes and Sanchez were born in Cuba and live and work between Havana and Madrid.
 They have exhibited in Cuba, Europe and North America, and have received a number of awards.
Caliente (Hot) is a television music series that aired on Univision from April 8, 1995 to March 11, 2006 with 417 episodes.
 It was hosted by Charlie Bravo and Diana Franco, until Rafael Mercadente took over on March 1, 2003.
 It could be described as a sort of Latin Soul Train.
 Caliente featured some of the biggest names in Latin music including live segments from Celia Cruz and Daddy Yankee.
 The show was mostly shot in Miami, Florida but the show also made tapings in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Puerto Rico, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and others.
Manuel Rodulfo Tardo (February 18, 1913 in Pueblo Nuevo, Mantanzas Province, Cuba – December 22, 1998 in New York City, USA) was a Cuban artist.
 He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes “San Alejandro”, Havana, Cuba, together with Juan Esnard Heydrich y José Francisco Cobos,and at The Sculpture Center, New York, U.S.A.
 One of his mentors was the Cuban sculptor Juan José Sicre.
 He was a painter as well as a sculptor.
Antonio Machín ("Antonio Abad Lugo Machín"; 11 February 1903, in Sagua la Grande, Cuba – 4 August 1977, in Madrid) was a Cuban singer and musician.
 His version of "El Manisero", recorded in New York, 1930, with Don Azpiazú's orchestra, was the first million record seller for a Cuban artist.
 Although this was labelled a rumba, it was in reality a son pregón, namely, a song based on a street-seller's cry.
José Martí is an outdoor sculpture of the Cuban nationalist leader and writer of the same name by Cuban artist Tony Lopez, installed at Hermann Park's McGovern Centennial Gardens in Houston, Texas, in the United States.
 The bust was acquired by the City of Houston in 1981.