The story of Celia Cruz is the story of salsa music itself. From her earliest forays into Cuban nightlife with La Sonora Matancera, to her international acclaim (complete with Grammys and the National ...

After a reign of more than half a century as the undisputed Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz has stepped off the world's stage. Ms. Cruz, the Cuban singer who began performing in 1949 with La Sonora ...

Cuban-American trumpet player Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros is a walking salsa music encyclopedia. He may not have been present at the birth of the genre in 1928 (he was four years old) but the ...

Bay Area salsa pioneer Benny Velarde is among those mourning the loss of salsa queen Celia Cruz, who died Wednesday in New Jersey at age 78. "The news of Celia Cruz's passing has saddened me deeply," ...

Indiana University is hosting a series of free events to celebrate Celia Cruz's 100th birthday. The events include film screenings, lectures, exhibits, and live musical and dance performances. Cruz, ...

Today’s Google logo remembers salsa singer Celia Cruz on what would have been the artist’s 88th birthday. Cruz began her career singing lead vocals for the famous Cuban orchestra Sonora Matancera in ...

ARCADIA, Calif., Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Pedro Knight, lead trumpet player for Cuba's La Sonora Matancera band and husband of "Queen of Salsa" Celia Cruz, died at 85 in an Arcadia, Calif., hospital. A cause ...

Past the late Celia Cruz, there aren’t many well-known women in the musical genre of salsa. But tonight at Artisphere, salsa dance teacher and educator Eileen Torres is offering, as part of Women’s ...

Celia Cruz, who went from singing in Havana nightclubs to become the "Queen of Salsa," died today (July 16) of a brain tumor. She was 77. By Billboard Staff Celia Cruz, who went from singing in Havana ...

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Celia Cruz, the Cuban-born singer who went from singing in Havana nightclubs to become the "Queen of Salsa," died Wednesday, her publicist said. Cruz, who was 77, died of a brain tumor. She had ...