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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]
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 ...
In 1996, Celia Cruz and her husband of more than 40 years chose him as their manager, a job he held until the artist’s death. Pedro Knight, Omer Pardillo Cid and Celia Cruz. (Courtesy Omer ...
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.
Putting the singer on the U.S. quarter will affirm the cultural significance of her work, Miami Herald Editorial Board says. As always, Celia Cruz, the queen of salsa, is right on the money ...
She admired Celia Cruz and like her, she graduated from teaching instruction before starting her professional singing career. [3] Lupe married in 1958 and formed a musical trio with her husband Eulogio "Yoyo" Reyes and another female singer. This group, Los Tropicuba, broke up along with her marriage in 1960.
Revealed last week, the new quarter honoring three-time Grammy award-winning Cuban-American singer Celia Cruz is available now from the U.S. Mint as part of its American Women Quarters Program's ...