Azucar song celia cruz biography
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¡Celia Cruz: Azúcar!
American TV series or program
¡Celia Cruz: Azúcar! (English: Celia Cruz: Sugar!) was a tribute special held in honor of Cuban performer Celia Cruz. It was hosted by American singer Marc Anthony and Cuban-American singer Gloria Estefan. It featured musical performances by various Latin music and Anglo performers including Victor Manuelle, Paulina Rubio, José Feliciano, Milly Quezada, Los Tri-O, Gloria Estefan, Patti LaBelle, Arturo Sandoval, Ana Gabriel, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Tito Nieves, Albita, Johnny Pacheco, Alfredo de la Fe, Alicia Villareal, Olga Tañón, Mikey Perfecto, José Alberto "El Canario", Rosario, Luis Enrique, Marc Anthony and Gloria Gaynor. This was Cruz's final public appearance,[1] before her death in July The tribute concert raised $, for the Celia Cruz Foundation.[2]
- Musicians: Luis Aquino, Ito Torres, Vicente "Cussi" Castillo, Juan Quinones, Rafy Torres, Victor Vazquez, Tonito Vazquez, William "Cachiro" Thompson, Ti
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Celia Cruz, known as the Queen of Salsa, was an internationally acclaimed singer and dynamic scen performer from the s to the start of the 21st century.
Celia Cruz was instrumental to the creation and popularization of “salsa,” a new genre of pan-Hispanic music that emerged in the s.
Her long, versatile career broadened the reach of Caribbean and Latin American music, celebrating its African roots.
“Toda la vida, yo he cantado musica alegre; . . . no me gusta cantar nada triste. Pues debo tener mis momentos dem tristeza … pero eso es para mi, para mi interior. . . no quiero transmitir al público.”
[All my life, I’ve sung happy music; inom don’t like to sing anything sad. Of course I have unhappy moments, but they are just for me, for my inner life. I don’t want to bring that to the public.]
-“Me Llamo Celia Cruz,” BBC documentary ()
Becoming a Singer: La Guarachera de Cuba
The Queen of Salsa was born Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso on October 21,
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La Sonora Matancera renounced Fidel Castro’s socialist regime during their Mexican tour resulting in the band’s exile from Cuba. In , Cruz and her partner, Pedro Knight—former trumpeter for Sonora Mantacera—moved to the U.S. and settled in New Jersey to join the New York area’s burgeoning Latin music scene. After fifteen years with Sonora Matancera, Cruz struck out on her own as a solo artist in She began collaborating and recording with Tito Puente among other musicians. The only female member of the legendary Fania All Stars supergroup, Cruz became known around the world as the “Queen of Salsa.” In , she won her first Grammy Award for her album Ritmo en el corazón, a collaboration with Ray Barretto. Always singing in her native Spanish, she recorded seventy-five records, twenty-three of which went gold, and received a host of honors and awards including the National Medal of Arts and a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Grammy.
Cruz’s music and style constantly evolved. While her