Cuban singer Celia Cruz would become known worldwide as "The ... man who taught her everything she knows about music – her father, percussionist Pete Escovedo. Percussionist and singer Sheila ...

performing alongside the Celia Cruz All Stars. Born to a Haitian mother and a Cuban father, Cruz grew up in Havana. Her voice became a symbol of freedom and an act of defiance against the Cuban ...

Cruz was recognized worldwide as much for ... She was someone who never let herself fall behind. I met Celia because my dad and an uncle promoted shows in Colombia and they brought José Alberto ...

According to the museum, the dress is donated through the Celia Cruz Foundation after three years of conversations between the important salsa pilgrimage space and the foundation. “My father was ...

The late legendary Cuban singer Celia Cruz is has become the first Afro-Latina woman to appear on U.S. currency. The “Queen of Salsa” was one of five women selected to be the “face” of a ...

In 2024, the late Celia Cruz will be the first Afro Latina face on a U.S. quarter, part of the American Women Quarters series that also honors suffragettes, civil rights defenders, abolitionists ...

Celia Cruz delivered many salsa hits in more than 70 albums of a career that started in Cuba and reached its peak in the United States. She died in 2003.Credit...Martial Trezzini/KEYSTONE ...