To celebrate the release of a new book from NPR Music, How Women Made Music, as well as the 50th anniversary this year of the album Celia & Johnny, Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre walk through ...

FLINT, MI -- The celebration of Celia Cruz, also known as the Queen Salsa, was held at the Gloria Coles Flint Public Library on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025. The event was filled with lively music after the ...

Chambers's (Marisol and Magdalena) poetic, at times theatrical, portrait of the famous salsa singer begins with Cruz's childhood in Havana. Neighbors gathered outside the open windows of her family ...

In 2024, the late Celia Cruz will be the first Afro Latina face on a U.S. quarter, part of the American Women Quarters series that also honors suffragettes, civil rights defenders, abolitionists and ...

If there’s any doubt of the cultural impact Celia Cruz has had over the past century, consider the following: In 1994, Cruz received the National Medal of Arts from President Bill Clinton, the highest ...