Música tropical
Cuba
Celia Cruz
I successi di Celia Cruz
Ricky Martin, Alejandro Sanz, Thalia, Juan Luis Guerra, Gloria Estefan, Celia Cruz, Olga Tañón, Ricardo Montaner, Ana Gabriel, Jorge Hernandez, LOS TIGRES DELNORTE, Alicia Villarreal, Alejandro Fernández, Carlos Vives, Jaci Velasquez, Marco Antonio Solís, José José, Lucía Mendez, Jennifer Lopez, Emmanuele, Chayanne, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Paulina Rubio, Alberto "Beto" Zapata, La Ley, Ana Bárbara, Carlos Ponce, Jon Secada, Shakira, Gian Marco, Luis Fonsi, Yuri, Miguel Bosé, Wilkins, Giselle, Melina León, Christina Aguilera, José Feliciano & José Luis Rodríguez
Altri album di Celia Cruz
Video musicali popolari di Celia Cruz
Chi è Celia Cruz
Città natale
Havana, Cuba
Nato/a
October 21, 1925
Genere
Música tropical
The first time legendary Cuban singer Celia Cruz stepped up to a microphone was during an amateur vocal contest at a Havana radio station, where she took home first prize—a cake.
∙ After embracing Afro-Cuban music while at Cuba’s Conservatory of Music, she landed her first major gig in 1950—as a vocalist with big band La Sonora Matancera.
∙ In 1960, Cruz and her future husband, trumpeter Pedro Knight, headed to the US, where she began her solo career fronting a band formed for her by Tito Puente.
∙ Her army of fans crowned her Queen of Salsa due to her electrifying live performances and the 70 albums she released between 1958 and 2003.
∙ Cruz’s bold fashion style was so iconic that the Smithsonian Institution put her trademark orange-red-and-white polka-dot dress and shoes in its permanent collection.
∙ She brought her charisma to the big screen, taking roles in The Mambo Kings and The Perez Family, both about a subject she knew well—Cubans trying their luck in the US.
∙ “La Negra Tiene Tumbao,” a celebration of Black womanhood that blended Afro-Cuban and urban grooves, picked up three Latin Grammy nominations in 2002, while its namesake LP won for Best Salsa Album.
∙ In addition to receiving a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a National Medal of the Arts, she had a street in Miami renamed in her honor: Celia Cruz Way.
Influenze MusicaliLe influenze musicali di Celia Cruz includono Dámaso Pérez Prado, Ibrahim Ferrer, Antonio Arcano e altro.
Influenzato da Celia CruzCelia Cruz ha influenzato la musica di Juanes, Marc Anthony, Ivy Queen e altro ancora.
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