Forever the innovator, the undisputed Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz, has topped the charts with her 2001 CD release, La Negra Tiene Tumbao. Mesmerizing tumbao rhythms permeate...
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To commemorate the one-year anniversary of the passing away of Celia Cruz, Universal Music Latin dug into its vault and unearthed some recordings by the Queen of Salsa that...
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Here's a wonderful early recording. Homenaje... consists of songs to and around the spirits of lucumi/santeria backed by dance-type bands, a slightly odd Cuban sub-genre....
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This is a wonderful early recording. It's not just Celia with Matancera, but includes other Sonora Matancera hits from the 1950s. ~ John Storm Roberts, Original Music, All...
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Cruz with Willie is just about as sure a thing as Celia with Johnny (Pacheco). Surer, maybe, since C&J have made far more recordings than C&W. Celia Cruz is the nearest...
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Celia Cruz was 69 when she recorded 1994's Irrepetible, and at that point in her career, she had nothing left to prove; the veteran singer boasted a huge catalog and had...
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Being so used to Celia Super Star, it's hard to believe that in 1974 she was definitely older generation as far as the young idea was concerned. Then came this record,...
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A Celia Cruz/Willie Colon collaboration is to salseros what a Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell duet is to soul lovers or an Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong project is to jazz...
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Female singers are abundant in Latin pop, but for whatever reason, salsa has remained a male-dominated idiom. From the 1950s to the mid-'90s, salsa's most prominent female...
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Duets finds Celia Cruz singing with several Latin music superstars, Angela Carrasco, Caetano Veloso, Willie Colon, Cheo Feliciano, Oscar D'Leon, Jose Alberto, Tito Puente,...
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Celia Cruz and bandleader Sonora Matancera came together in 1950 and become one of Cuba's biggest attractions. Alongside singer Beny Moré, Cruz dominated the postwar world...
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Celia Cruz & Friends: A Night of Salsa is taken from a PBS broadcast recorded in Hartford, CT, on May 12, 1999. With the help of Tito Puente, Johnny Pacheco, La India, and...
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A solid collection of Celia Cruz' '90s recordings for RMM, Carnaval de Exitos grabs several tracks from her best albums for the label, including the previous year's live...
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