Celia Cruz, the undisputed Queen of Salsa, left a legacy as powerful as her voice. On July 16, 2003, Cruz died in Fort Lee, New Jersey, at age 77. She would have turned 100 this year. Known for iconic ...

Celia Cruz's "La Vida es un Carnaval" has been stuck in our heads for a while now, so we figured it might be high time to take a trip down memory lane back to the '90s. It was a time when some of the ...

Celia Cruz's music is timeless. In her iconic La Vida Es Un Carnaval, she sings – "You don't have to cry … life is a carnival … it's more beautiful to live singing." When it plays in Miami nightclubs, ...

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With her gravity-defying coiff, fantastic feathered costumes and low-range pipes, the late performer Celia Cruz reinvented the idea of pop stardom, and in the process ushered in the popularity of ...

Salsa music icon, Celia Cruz, will soon be the first Afro Latina to be featured on a United States quarter. La guarachera de Cuba and the queen of salsa is making history nearly 20 years after her ...