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Dexter Lehtinen, Celia Cruz, Alonso R. del Portillo, Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, and Pedro Knight in May 1992. In 1950, the band's leader, Rogelio Martínez, invited Celia Cruz, who had gained popularity for her radio performances and for breaking the color barrier with the sexy song and dance act Las Mulatas de Fuego at the Tropicana, to join the band ...
Dexter Lehtinen, Celia Cruz, Alonso R. del Portillo, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and Pedro Knight in May 1992. In 1990, Cruz managed to return to Cuba. She was invited to make a presentation at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. When she came out of this presentation she took a few grams of Cuban soil in a bag; at her request, this bag would later be ...
Pedro Knight, Omer Pardillo Cid and Celia Cruz. (Courtesy Omer Pardillo Cid) “It was a constant tour,” said the Cuban American who left his native country when he was a child.
Celia is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Fox Telecolombia for RCN Televisión and Telemundo [1] which is based on the life of Cuban singer Celia Cruz. [1] [4] [5] The telenovela's theme "La Negra Tiene Tumbao" received an award for Television Theme Song of the Year, at the 2016 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Awards.
Celia Cruz, the Queen of Salsa, who died in 2003 at age 77, will become the first Afro Latina to be featured on the U.S. quarter.
The late Cuban American singer Celia Cruz, known as the Queen of Salsa, will be the first Afro Latina to appear on the U.S. quarter. Cruz was one of the 20th century’s most celebrated Latin ...
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.
Pedro Knight retired as a trumpeter in 1967 to be Celia Cruz's full-time manager. [1] Ramón Emilio "Chiripa" Aracena became the new second trumpet chair that same year. [1] Leo Marini, a vocal mainstay during the 1950s, renewed his association by recording an album with the cooperative in 1969. [27]