Cruz was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as an early musical influence
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Celia Cruz
Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso, known as Celia Cruz, was a Cuban-American singer and one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century. Cruz rose to fame in Cuba during the 1950s as a singer of guarachas, earning the nickname La Guarachera de Cuba. In the following decades, she became known internationally as the "Queen of Salsa" due to her contributions to Latin music. She sold over 30 millio…
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entertainment · Cuban singer (1925–2003) · singer · actor · also Celia Cruz, Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso, Cruz
Born 21 October 1925 · Died 16 July 2003 · Q474045
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2026· 1 entry
2023· 1 entry
Rolling Stone ranked Cruz at No
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2019· 2 entries
Chilean-American poet Marjorie Agosin created a chamber music theatre performance titled "Las Magníficas" (The Magnificent Ones), based on the life of Celia Cruz and Chilean singer-songwriter Violeta Parra
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Angélique Kidjo released a tribute album to Cruz, entitled Celia, including songs spanning all of Cruz's career reinvented with an Afrobeat feel
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2018· 2 entries
A monument to Cruz was unveiled in the Cuban Heritage Park in Hialeah, Florida
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The Celia Cruz Estate launched a brand inspired by Cruz which featured merchandise inspired and about Cruz
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2016).
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2015· 1 entry
The television networks RCN Televisión and Telemundo produced the TV series Celia based on the life of Celia Cruz
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2013· 3 entries
Released album “La mazucamba”.
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Awarded New Jersey Hall of Fame (2013).
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Cruz was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame
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2005· 3 entries
On a commemorative CD honoring the festival's then 20-year history entitled, "Central Park SummerStage: Live from the Heart of the City"
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Based on more than 500 hours of interviews with the Mexican journalist Ana Cristina Reymundo
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Los Angeles named the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Argyle Avenue, "Celia Cruz Square," after her
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2004· 4 entries
Awarded Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album for Regalo del Alma (2004).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Salsa/Merengue Album for Regalo del Alma (2004).
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The heavily Cuban-American community of Union City, New Jersey heralded its annual Cuban Day Parade by dedicating its new Celia Cruz Park (also known as Celia Cruz Plaza), which features a sidewalk star in her honor, at
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The Miami Herald revealed from partially declassified US State Department papers that Cruz had been linked to Cuba's pre-Revolution communist party, the Popular Socialist Party (PSP), as early as the 1940s
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2003· 6 entries
Died 2003-07-16.
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album for La Negra Tiene Tumbao (2003).
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But was unable to attend on doctor's orders
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At the 45th Annual Grammy Awards to receive the award for Best Salsa Album
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A music school was opened in the Bronx, named the Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music
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Released album “Regalo del alma”.
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2002· 3 entries
Appeared at the Hipódromo de las Américas in Mexico City
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Awarded Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album for La Negra Tiene Tumbao (2002).
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Cruz released the album, La negra tiene tumbao, where she ventured into modern variants of Caribbean rhythms, influenced by rap and hip hop
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2001· 2 entries
Released album “La negra tiene tumbao”.
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The album Siempre viviré won her a second Latin Grammy
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2000· 4 entries
Released album “Siempre viviré”.
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Awarded Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album for Celia Cruz and Friends: A Night of Salsa (2000).
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Released album “Grande éxitos”.
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Cruz released a new album under the auspices of Sony Music, Celia Cruz and Friends: A Night of Salsa, where she recorded again with Tito Puente, who died shortly after
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1999· 11 entries
Released album “Absolute Best: Salsa”.
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Released album “Tributo a los Orishas”.
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Awarded International Latin Music Hall of Fame (1999).
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Awarded ASCAP Latin Heritage Award (1999).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Miami (1999).
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Released album “Feliz Navidad Christmas in Cuba”.
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Released album “Serpentinas en colores”.
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Released album “La reina de salsa”.
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Released album “Hoy y ayer”.
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Released album “Cuban Queen”.
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Performed with Luciano Pavarotti for the Pavarotti and Friends concert
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1998· 5 entries
Released album “Mi Vida Es Cantar”.
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Released album “Afro-cubana”.
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Released the album Mi vida es cantar, which featured one of her most successful songs, La vida es un carnaval
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Released album “La guarachera de cuba”.
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Released album “Frente a frente”.
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1997· 6 entries
Released album “Celia’s Duets”.
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Released album “The Best of Celia Cruz”.
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Released album “Fania All Stars with Celia Cruz”.
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Released album “"Cuba" Las Grandes Damas De La Cancion”.
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Released album “Cuban Legend”.
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Starred again for Televisa in the Mexican telenovela El alma no tiene color, a remake of the classic Mexican film Angelitos negros
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “Goza negra”.
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1995· 5 entries
Released album “Madre rumba”.
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Celia made a guest appearance in the American film The Perez Family, along with Alfred Molina and Anjelica Huston
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Released album “Ritmo y calor de Cuba con Celia Cruz”.
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Released album “Queen of Cuban Rhythm: The Legendary Seeco Recordings 1959–1965”.
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Released album “Festejando Navidad”.
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1994· 8 entries
Won National Medal of Arts (1994).
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Awarded Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame (1994).
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Released album “Nostalgia tropical”.
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Released album “Vamos a guarachar”.
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Released album “Irresistible”.
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Released album “Irrepetible”.
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Received the National Endowment for the Arts award from the then President Bill Clinton, which is the highest recognition granted by the United States government to an artist
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Released album “The Best, Vol. 2”.
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1993· 3 entries
Released album “¡Azúcar!”.
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Released album “Los originales”.
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Released album “Boleros”.
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1992· 7 entries
Released album “Celia Cruz con la Sonora Matancera”.
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Celia participated as an actress in the American film Mambo Kings, along with Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas
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Released album “Tributo a Ismael Rivera”.
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Released album “Mambo del amor”.
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Released album “La reina de Cuba”.
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Released album “El merengue”.
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Released album “Azúcar negra”.
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1990· 4 entries
Awarded Lo Nuestro Excellence Award (1990).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Album (1990).
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Cruz won her first Grammy Award (Best Tropical Latin Performance) for her album Ritmo en el corazón, recorded with Ray Barretto
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Cruz managed to return to Cuba
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “Tesoros musicales: 20 éxitos originales”.
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1988· 4 entries
Participated in the feature film Salsa alongside Robby Draco Rosa
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Released album “Ritmo en el corazón”.
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Released album “La Reina Del Ritmo”.
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Released album “Introducing... Celia Cruz”.
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1987· 3 entries
Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1987).
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Released album “The Winners”.
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Cruz performed a concert in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
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1986· 1 entry
Released album “La candela”.
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1985· 2 entries
Released album “Homenaje a Beny Moré, vol. 3”.
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Released album “De nuevo”.
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1983· 2 entries
Released album “Tremendo trío”.
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Released album “16 éxitos de Celia Cruz”.
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1982· 2 entries
Released album “Feliz encuentro”.
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Celia was reunited with the Sonora Matancera and recorded the album Feliz Encuentro
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1981· 2 entries
Released album “15 grandes éxitos”.
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Released album “Celia y Willie”.
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “Celia, Johnny and Pete”.
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1979· 1 entry
Released album “La ceiba”.
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1978· 4 entries
Released album “The 'brillante' Best of Celia Cruz”.
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Released album “A todos mis amigos”.
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Released album “Willie Colón & Associates (49 Minutes)”.
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Released album “Eternos”.
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Only They Could Have Made This Album”.
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1976· 2 entries
Released album “Recordando el ayer”.
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Participated in the documentary film Salsa about Latin culture, along with figures like Dolores del Río and Willie Colón
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1975· 1 entry
Released album “Tremendo caché”.
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1974· 4 entries
Fania Records, the leading salsa record label, acquired Tico and signed Cruz to the imprint Vaya Records, where she remained until 1992
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Released album “Celia & Johnny”.
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In collaboration with Johnny Pacheco, the label's founder and musical director
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And returned to San Juan in 1975 for another concert
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1973· 1 entry
When she recorded the lead vocals of "Gracia divina", a song by Larry Harlow which was part of his "Latin opera" Hommy
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1972· 2 entries
Released album “La Guagua”.
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Released album “Algo especial para recordar”.
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1971· 4 entries
Released album “Homenaje a Yemaya”.
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Released album “Nuevos Exitos de Celia Cruz”.
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Released album “En España”.
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Released album “Los grandes exitos de Celia Cruz”.
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1970· 2 entries
Released album “Etc. etc. etc.”.
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Released album “Alma con alma: The Heart & Soul of Celia Cruz and Tito Puente”.
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1969· 1 entry
Released album “Quimbo quimbumbia”.
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1968· 2 entries
Released album “Serenata guajira”.
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Released album “La excitante”.
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1967· 4 entries
Released album “Bravo”.
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Released album “Grandes éxitos Celia Cruz”.
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Released album “67”.
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Released album “...a ti México”.
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1966· 3 entries
Released album “Son con guaguancó”.
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Released album “Cuba y Puerto Rico son…”.
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Cruz was contacted by Tito Puente to perform with his orchestra
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1965· 4 entries
Released album “El nuevo estilo de la guarachera”.
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Released album “Homenaje a los santos”.
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Released album “Homenaje a los santos, vol. 2”.
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Cruz would culminate a vertiginous fifteen years with the Sonora Matancera
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1964· 4 entries
Released album “Con amor”.
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Released album “Canciones inolvidables”.
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Released album “Sabor y ritmo de pueblos”.
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Released album “Canciones que yo quería haber grabado primero”.
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1963· 2 entries
Released album “Mi diario musical”.
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Released album “La tierna, conmovedora, bamboleadora”.
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1962· 1 entry
Before the refusal of the Cuban government to allow her to return to Cuba, Cruz acquired a house in Fort Lee, New Jersey
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1961· 3 entries
Released album “México, que grande eres”.
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Released album “Canciones premiadas”.
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Cruz and Sonora Matancera left Mexico for an engagement in the United States
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1960· 3 entries
Released album “La dinamica!”.
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Released album “Reflexiones de Celia Cruz”.
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After the Cuban Revolution caused the nationalization of the music industry, Cruz left her native country, becoming one of the symbols and spokespersons of the Cuban community in exile
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1959· 1 entry
Released album “Su favorita”.
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1958· 2 entries
Released album “La incomparable Celia”.
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Released album “La reina del ritmo cubano”.
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1957· 1 entry
To receive the award and to perform at St
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1956· 1 entry
Released album “Canta Celia Cruz (Celia Cruz Sings)”.
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1954· 1 entry
Released album “Celia Cruz”.
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1952· 2 entries
Released album “Selecciones favoritas de Celia Cruz”.
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And 1955 because of suspected communist affiliations
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1950· 1 entry
When Myrta Silva, the singer with Cuba's Sonora Matancera, returned to her native Puerto Rico
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1948· 1 entry
Roderico Rodney Neyra founded the group of dancers and singers Las Mulatas de Fuego (The Fiery Mulattas)
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-10-21.
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