Listen to this playlist on Spotify or Apple Music. When a schoolteacher named Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso replaced Myrta Silva as the singer of La Sonora Matancera in 1950, ...
Recorded five years after Cruz left Cuba for good, Son Con Guaguancó depicts the singer on the cusp of major stardom as she adapts to a new life... The world's love affair with Celia Cruz is a story ...
She was less well known in the Anglo world than should have been the case, but, in all the lands and shores ever touched by Afro-Caribbean music, Celia Cruz was the queen. More simply put, she was the ...
With her gravity-defying coiff, fantastic feathered costumes and low-range pipes, the late performer Celia Cruz reinvented the idea of pop stardom, and in the process ushered in the popularity of ...
Nueva York, 23 mar (EFEUSA).Nueva York, 23 mar (EFEUSA). — El ¡azúcar! que acompañó a Celia Cruz en los escenarios retumbó hoy en el Teatro Apollo de Nueva York durante un concierto en homenaje a la ...
Celia Cruz, the beloved "Queen of Salsa," who died in July 2003, never wanted to write an autobiography. Her life, she seemed to think, was not the stuff of autobiographies. "For that kind of book to ...
The only thing more unforgettable than the rich, sonorous voice of the Queen of Salsa was arguably her big, brilliantly-colored stage ensembles, set off with Vegas-proportioned headwear. Starting ...
The late Celia Cruz would have had one more reason to shout "azucar" upon hearing the news that she will receive a Grammy lifetime achievement award from The Recording Academy. By Judy Cantor-Navas ...