CELIA CRUZ

Celia Cruz (Úrsula Hilaria Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso)  Oct. 21, 1924-July 16, 2003 was a Cuban salsa singer who spent most of her career living in New Jersey, and working in the United States and several Latin American countries. Cruz was one of the most successful Cuban performers of the 20th century, with twenty-three gold albums to her name and has earned the moniker of the "Queen of Salsa". Leila Cobo of Billboard Magazine once said "Cruz is indisputably the best-known and most influential female figure in the history of Afro-Cuban music."      User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.