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is Celia Cruz died?
From CNN at 6:15pm AT
Latin music icon Celia Cruz, the "Queen of Salsa," dies after battle with cancer, manager says.
Latin music icon Celia Cruz, the "Queen of Salsa," dies after battle with cancer, manager says.
First Compay and now Celia. The last survivor of the original Sonora Matancera (which also featured the late Dominican singer and former neighbor of my grandmother Alberto Beltran) has left us.
A friend's 4-year-old automatically shouts "azucar!" whenever he sees her on TV.
This has been a sad, sad, week for latin music lovers.
A friend's 4-year-old automatically shouts "azucar!" whenever he sees her on TV.
This has been a sad, sad, week for latin music lovers.
RIP Celia
A wonderful artist, RIP Celia, your music lives on.
but a free Cuba she would had had to live to be over 100 years old.
DCfred said:
A wonderful artist, RIP Celia, your music lives on.
but a free Cuba she would had had to live to be over 100 years old.
Se muere la dura
Que dios los tenga con sigo. ?La Se?ora de cabello de argodon? y "El rey del Son, Compay Segundo", vivieron y asi murieron ?con orgullo de su color, La Negrura?. God bless Celia Cruz and Compay Segundo.
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bladeNYC
DR1, my new barrio
Que dios los tenga con sigo. ?La Se?ora de cabello de argodon? y "El rey del Son, Compay Segundo", vivieron y asi murieron ?con orgullo de su color, La Negrura?. God bless Celia Cruz and Compay Segundo.
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bladeNYC
DR1, my new barrio
There is a very nice appreciation article in the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2813-2003Jul16.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2813-2003Jul16.html
sin Azucar.
Afficionados of Latin music the world over have lost two icons within such a short time: Compay Segundo and Celia Cruz. I had the privilege of meeting both several times when they visited Amsterdam. As groupleader and fairly fluent in Spanish, I was assigned to their perimeter control. As a youngster, I remember watching her singing with Sonora Matancera. Fans then and many years later, in the Netherlands went crazy when La Reina sang the one song, she had in her repertoire, in a language other than Spanish (as far as I know) Papiamento : Tur hende bon, bin come, bin bebe, bin goza, no para mira......
A festive song in Papiamento, the language of the Dutch Antilles.
Afficionados of Latin music the world over have lost two icons within such a short time: Compay Segundo and Celia Cruz. I had the privilege of meeting both several times when they visited Amsterdam. As groupleader and fairly fluent in Spanish, I was assigned to their perimeter control. As a youngster, I remember watching her singing with Sonora Matancera. Fans then and many years later, in the Netherlands went crazy when La Reina sang the one song, she had in her repertoire, in a language other than Spanish (as far as I know) Papiamento : Tur hende bon, bin come, bin bebe, bin goza, no para mira......
A festive song in Papiamento, the language of the Dutch Antilles.
WTF is it with spanish-language TV????
I've been watching the Gold Cup soccer tournament on Univision and Galavision and they are still running commercials of Paulina Rubio and Celia Cruz singing, dancing and hawking Dr Pepper. That would never happen on any of the big four networks in the USA. Someone passes. They pull all that person's commercials pronto.
It's very sad to watch a commercial announcing Celia's "Final Farewell" special complete with a shot of her flag-draped coffin and then -bip- there she is selling soft drinks. Enough already.
SLM
I've been watching the Gold Cup soccer tournament on Univision and Galavision and they are still running commercials of Paulina Rubio and Celia Cruz singing, dancing and hawking Dr Pepper. That would never happen on any of the big four networks in the USA. Someone passes. They pull all that person's commercials pronto.
It's very sad to watch a commercial announcing Celia's "Final Farewell" special complete with a shot of her flag-draped coffin and then -bip- there she is selling soft drinks. Enough already.
SLM