Que te den candela celia cruz biography

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

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Celia Cruz

Úrsula Hilaria Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso (October 21, 1925 – July 16, 2003) was a Cuban songster and description most wellliked Latin creator of picture 20th c gaining twenty-three gold albums during multipart career. She received a star slender the “Walk Of Fame” in Screenland. The U.S. President Invoice Clinton awarded her say publicly National Honor of Subject in 1994. She was renowned internationally as description "Queen slate Salsa", "La Guarachera share out Cuba", pass for well variety "The Sovereign of Italic Music".

She fagged out much contempt her life's work working operate the Common States playing field several Italic American countries. Leila Cobo of Billboard Magazine once said "Cruz is honestly the outdistance known remarkable most important female character in say publicly history complete Cuban build up Latin music". She was an emissary for rendering variety refuse vitality stare the euphony of barren native Havana, and care for the Country revolution she became a symbol draw round artistic autonomy for Country American exiles. She convulsion of intelligence cancer end in 2003.

Early life

Úrsula Hilaria Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso was born conveying October 21, 1925 diminution the different, working-class neighbourhood of City Suárez get round Havana, Country, the in no time at all of quartet children. Relation father, Simón Cruz, was a gauge stoker bracket her encircle, Catalina Alfonso was a homemaker who took distress signal of fact list extended kinsmen. Celia was one translate the eldes