Que te den candela celia cruz biography
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Celia Cruz
Úrsula Hilaria Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso (October 21, 1925 – July 16, 2003) was a Cuban singer and the most popular Latin artist of the 20th century, gaining twenty-three gold albums during her career. She received a star in the “Walk Of Fame” in Hollywood. The U.S. President Bill Clinton awarded her the National Medal of Arts in 1994. She was renowned internationally as the "Queen of Salsa", "La Guarachera de Cuba", as well as "The Queen of Latin Music".
She spent much of her career working in the United States and several Latin American countries. Leila Cobo of Billboard Magazine once said "Cruz is indisputably the best known and most influential female figure in the history of Cuban and Latin music". She was an ambassador for the variety and vitality of the music of her native Havana, and after the Cuban revolution she became a symbol of artistic freedom for Cuban American exiles. She died of brain cancer in 2003.
Early life
Úrsula Hilaria Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso was born on October 21, 1925 in the diverse, working-class neighborhood of Santos Suárez in Havana, Cuba, the second of four children. Her father, Simón Cruz, was a railroad stoker and her mother, Catalina Alfonso was a homemaker who took care of an extended family. Celia was one of the eldes
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FASHION, MUSIC & BLACKNESS:
Hello everybody!
First off, I’m starting Black History Month two days earlier than expected, it’s unusual as I usually start posting articles related to this on the first day of February but since I want to keep it consistent with my blog and honor those who paved the way for Latinos in music, off we go! Today I’ll talk about the legendary Celia Cruz, our beloved Queen of Salsa whose legacy stays alive, but this time around it’s all about her blackness and how she owned it as a black woman. You know, there is this idea of erasing a person’s racial identity just to make it more accommodated to white people and it’s my duty as a Latina to cut the bullshit and honor Celia the right way: She was all about her blackness, you can’t talk about her without focusing on her black pride.
This first entry will be dedicated to her music career and her blackness. Here are some facts about La Guarachera de Cuba ¡Azucar!
- Ursula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso was born on October 21, 1925 in La Habana, Cuba. One of the eldest among fourteen children (Dios mio!) in a working class family
- Growing up, she used to listen to many artists who would later pave the way in her adulthood such as Fernando