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Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso was born on 21 October 1925, at 47 Serrano Street in the Santos Suárez neighborhood of Havana, Cuba. [10] [3] [11] Her father, Simón Cruz, was a railway stoker, and her mother, Catalina Alfonso Ramos, a housewife of Haitian descent who took care of an extended family. [3]
La Sonora Matancera is a Cuban band that played Latin American urban popular dance music. Founded in 1924 and led for more than five decades by guitarist, vocalist, composer, and producer Rogelio Martínez, musicologists consider it an icon of this type of music.
Son Con Guaguancó is a studio album recorded by Celia Cruz and released on the Tico Records label in 1966 (SLP-1143). It was Cruz's first major release as a solo artist in the United States without the Sonora Matancera. [3] The album has been recognized as one of the great works of Latin music.
Knight was a trained trumpeter, and a "powerfully expressive" musician, according to Sue Stewart of The Guardian.At age 23, he joined the Havana-based, Afro-Cuban conjunto band, La Sonora Matancera ("the sound of Matanzas", a port with a large black population), that produced, highly rhythmic dance music rooted in traditional, Africa-based styles of son and guaracha, as revived decades later ...
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"La Negra Tiene Tumbao" (English: "The Black Woman's Got Rhythm") is a song performed by Cuban recording artist Celia Cruz. It features rap vocals performed by Mikey Perfecto. The song was written by Sergio George and Fernando Osorio, produced by George and released as the lead single from Cruz's fifty-ninth studio album La Negra Tiene Tumbao ...
The Mambo Kings is the soundtrack to the 1992 film of the same name, based on Oscar Hijuelos's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.Artists featured on the album include Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Benny Moré, Arturo Sandoval, Linda Ronstadt and Los Lobos.
Aymée Regla Nuviola Suárez (Havana, Cuba, January 8, 1973) is a Cuban singer, pianist, composer and actress, nicknamed "La Sonera del Mundo".She is also known for having played Celia Cruz in the Colombian telenovela Celia.