Artist: Celia Cruz
Genre(s):
Latin
Jazz
Latin: Dance
Blues
Discography:
Only They Could Have Made This Album
Year: 2006
Tracks: 10
Latin Music's First Lady: Her Essential Recordings (cd2)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 20
Latin Music's First Lady: Her Essential Recordings (cd1)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 20
Celia and Johnny
Year: 2006
Tracks: 10
La Reina Vive
Year: 2005
Tracks: 14
A Rough Guide to Celia Cruz
Year: 2005
Tracks: 18
Regalo del Alma
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
En Tiempo De Bolero
Year: 2004
Tracks: 16
Dios Disfrute A La Reina
Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
Lo Mejor, Vol. 3
Year: 2003
Tracks: 15
Lo Mejor, Vol. 2
Year: 2003
Tracks: 15
Lo Mejor, Vol. 1
Year: 2003
Tracks: 15
Grandes Exitos
Year: 2003
Tracks: 17
Exitos Eternos
Year: 2003
Tracks: 14
Boleros Eternos
Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
Boleros
Year: 2003
Tracks: 21
La Negra Tiene Tumbao
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Siempre Vivire
Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
CELIA CRUZ and FRIENDS, A NIGHT OF SALSA
Year: 2000
Tracks: 13
21 Exitos De Oro
Year: 2000
Tracks: 21
Mi Vida Es Cantar
Year: 1998
Tracks: 9
El Merengue
Year: 1997
Tracks: 16
Duets
Year: 1997
Tracks: 13
Irresistible
Year: 1995
Tracks: 18
Mambo del Amor
Year: 1993
Tracks: 16
La Ceiba
Year: 1992
Tracks: 8
Con La Sonora Matancera
Year: 1992
Tracks: 20
El Malo Ray
Year: 1978
Tracks: 9
Oyela, Gozala
Year:
Tracks: 15
La Reina Del Ritmo Bootleg
Year:
Tracks: 20
Hits Mix
Year:
Tracks: 10
Cha Cha Cha
Year:
Tracks: 5
Cambiando Ritmos
Year:
Tracks: 16
Azucar Negra
Year:
Tracks: 10
Celia Cruz was one of Latin music's most respected vocalists. A ten-time Grammy campaigner, Cruz, world Health Organization sang solely in her native Spanish language, standard a Smithsonian Lifetime Achievement honour, a National Medal of the Arts, and honorary doctorates from Yale University and the University of Miami. A street in Miami was even renamed in her honour, and Cruz's hallmark orange, loss, and ovalbumin polka department of Transportation dress and shoes have been placed in the lasting collecting of the Smithsonian Institute of Technology. The Hollywood Wax Museum includes a statue of the Cuba-born songstress. According to the European Jazz Network, Cruz "commands her kingdom with a down-to-earth dignity remarkably vibrant in her wide of the mark smile and contact pose."
Unmatchable of 14 children, born in the diminished settlement of Barrio Santos Suarez, Havana, Cruz was raddled to music from an early eld. Her first copulate of place was a gift from a tourist for whom she american ginseng. In addition to spending many evenings telling her younger siblings to sopor, Cruz american ginseng in school productions and community gatherings. Taken to cabarets and nightclubs by an aunt, she was introduced to the cosmos of professional medicine. At the boost of a cousin, Cruz began to record and win local talent shows. Although her father attempted to guide her toward a life history as a teacher, Cruz continued to be lured by music. In a 1997 interview, she aforementioned, "I experience fulfilled my father's wish to be a teacher as, through my euphony, I teach generations of people about my culture and the happiness that is base in just living life story. As a performer, I want people to feel their black Maria whistle and their hard liquor hang glide." Enrolling in Cuba's Conservatory of Music in 1947, Cruz constitute her earlier aspiration in the telling of Afro-Cuban singer Paulina Alvarez. Her first break came when she was invited to join the band la Sonora Matancera in 1950. The group was revered as the Latin equivalent of the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Cruz remained with the group for 15 eld, touring passim the domain. She married the band's trumpet player Pedro Knight on July 14, 1962. With Fidel Castro's assumptive control of Cuba in 1960, Cruz and Knight refused to fall to their country of origin and became citizens of the United States. Although they initially signed to do with the orchestra of the Hollywood Palladium, Cruz and Knight finally settled in New York. Knight became Cruz's director in 1965, a position he held until the mid-'90s when he began to commit his attention to service as her musical director and conductor of her band.
Going Sonora Matancera's isthmus in 1965, Cruz launched her solo calling with a isthmus formed for her by Tito Puente. Despite releasing ashcan School albums together, the collaborationism failed to achieve commercial-grade success. Cruz and Puente resumed their partnership with a particular coming into court at the Grammy Award ceremonies in 1987. Signed by Vaya, the babe label of Fania, Cruz recorded with Oscar D'Leon, Cheo Feliciano, and Hector Rodriquez in the mid to late '60s. Cruz's first success since departure Sonora Matancera came in 1974 when she recorded a duo album, Celia and Johnny, with Johnny Pacheco, trombone player and the co-owner of Fania. She later began appearance with the Fania All Stars. Cruz's popularity reached its highest stage when she appeared in the 1992 celluloid The Mambo Kings. Cruz also appeared in the motion-picture show The Perez Family. She sang a duo adaptation of "Daft de Amor," with David Byrne, in the Jonathan Demme picture show Something Wild. In 1998, Cruz released Duets, an album featuring her singing with Willie Colon, Angela Carrasco, Oscar D'Leon, Jose Alberto "El Canario," and la India. Cruz continued to record and perform until sidelined by a mastermind tumor in 2002. While recovering from oR to bump off the tumour, she managed to have it in to the studio in early 2003 to phonograph recording Regalo de Alma. Her surgical operation was only part successful and she died July 16, 2003. The passing of the "Queen of Salsa" left a vast gap in Latin medicine, simply as well a remarkable catalog to document her reign.
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