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  • Category Recording

    Address 6240 Hollywood Blvd.

    Ceremony date 09/17/1987

About
Celia Cruz
Born:
1925-10-21,
Havana,
Cuba
Education:
NA
Ethnicity:
Hispanic
Death Date:
-0001-11-30
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Celia Cruz

Celia Cruz was a Havana, Cuba born salsa singer, and was one of the most successful Salsa performers of the 20th century, with twenty-three gold albums to her name. She was renowned internationally as the "Queen of Salsa" as well as "La Guarachera de Cuba".

She spent most of her career living in New Jersey, and working in the United States and several Latin American countries.

Celia Cobo of Billboard Magazine once said "Cruz is indisputably the best known and most influential female figure in the history of Cuban music." Cruz once said in an interview "If I had a chance I wouldn't have been singing and dancing, I would be a teacher just like my dad wanted me to be".

Cruz was born in the diverse Santos Suárez neighborhood of Havana, Cuba. She is the second child of fourteen children born to Catalina Alfonso and Simón Cruz. Simón worked in the railroads as a stoker, and Catalina took care of the extended family.

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