Celia Cruz
Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso, known as Celia Cruz, was a Cuban singer and one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century. Cruz rose to fame in Cuba during the 1950s as a singer of guarachas, earning the nickname La Guarachera de Cuba. In the following decades, she became known internationally as the "Queen of Salsa" due to her contributions to Latin music.
Background
- Born in
- Havana Province
- Awards
- 🏆 honorary doctor of the University of Miami🏆 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award🏆 National Medal of Arts🏆 Grammy Award for Best Salsa/Merengue Album🏆 Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"I never talk about age, but I was born singing. My mother, Catalina, told me that at 9 or 10 months of age I’d wake up in the middle of the night, 2 or 3 in the morning, singing "esta muchachita va a …"
"Women are afraid to sing salsa…I don't know why; maybe they think it's for men. I am not a composer, or a soneo, a singer and a poet, which is very difficult. But I think everybody can sing everything…"
"Everybody looks at Celia Cruz and thinks, she is very happy…But I don't have a mother, a father, I don't have a country - I only have Pedro."
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Timeline
1925
Born
Birth2003
Died
Death
Family & Connections
- spouse:
- Pedro Knight
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