Person
ISNI: 
0000 0001 1559 2780
https://isni.org/isni/0000000115592780
Name: 
Alfonso, Ursula Hilaria Celia Caridad Cruz
CELIA CRUZ
Celia Cruz (cantante cubana)
Celia Cruz (Cuban-American salsa singer/performer)
Celia Cruz (kubanische Salsa-Sängerin und Schauspielerin)
Celia Cruz (zangeres uit Cuba (1925-2003))
Cruz Alfonso, Ursula Hilaria Celia Caridad
Cruz, Célia
CRUZ KNIGTH, CELIA
La Guarachera Universal
La Reina de la Rumba
La Reina de la Salsa
Sonora Matancera
Valvarde, U. Celia Cruz
Крус, Селия
Селия Крус
Сэлія Крус
סליה קרוז
سيليا كروز
کلیا کروز
セリア・クルス (サルサの女王と呼ばれたキューバ系アメリカ人のサルサ歌手・パフォーマー)
Dates: 
1925-2003
Creation class: 
Language material
Musical sound recording
Notated music
Projected medium
Creation role: 
author
creator
performer
singer
Related names: 
Barretto, Ray (1929-2006)
Barretto, Ray (co-performer)
Buenaventura, Yuri (co-performer)
Colón, Willie (1950-)
Colón, Willie (co-performer)
Compay Segundo (co-performer)
Crespo, Elvis (co-performer)
Delgado, Issac (co-performer)
Dell'Amico, Len (co-author)
Gast, Leon
La Sonora Matancera
Los Van Van (interp. / groupe vo)
Machito (co-performer)
Pacheco, Johnny
Pacheco, Johnny (co-performer)
Pérez Prado, Dámaso (co-performer)
Puente, Tito (1923-2000)
Puente, Tito (1925-2000))
Puente, Tito (co-performer)
Santiago, Eddie (co-performer)
Sonora Matancera (Grupo musical)
Sonora Matancera (Musical group) (isAffiliatedWith)
Yglesias, Pablo (co-author)
Titles: 
100 salsa bombas
100% salsa explosiva a hot + spicy mixture
30 Grandes de Cruz
absolute collection, The
Azúcar
Caliente y picante a latino session
Celia Cruz, reina rumba
Celia & Johnny
Celia : my life
Celia's duetos
Celia y Willie 40th anniversary edition
Chaleur Caraïbes salsa, zouk, merenguen reggeaton...
Cuban queen
Cumbiando
Exitos eternos.
Feliz encuentro
Homenaje a Beny More
Hot salsa tous les tubes muy caliente
Irresistible
Latina caliente l'essentiel de la musique latine
Latino salsa
mambo kings
Mega salsa
Mi vida es cantar
nuevo, De
Only they could have made this album
Ritmo en el corazón
rough guide to salsa divas, The
Salsa club
Salsa les plus grands tubes de la salsa
tostadero, El
winners
Notes: 
African American National Biography, accessed January 5, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database (Cruz, Celia; Ursula Hilaria Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso; Queen of Salsa; La Guarachera de Cuba; salsa musician, singer. She was born 21 December 1924 in Havana, Cuba; performed with Cuba's most popular band, the Sonora Matancera (1950-1965); received gold award for signature song, Burundanga; moved to New York and became the first Latin-born woman to perform at Carnegie Hall (1962); debuted at Harlem's Apollo Theater (1964); entered into a group with flutist Johnny Pacheco and the Fania All-Stars, in a sound that became known as salsa (1970's); honors include two Grammy and four Latin Grammy awards, a Smithsonian Institution Lifetime Achievement Award, a Congressional Gold Medal, and the President's Award for the National Endowment of the Arts. She died 16 July 2003 in Fort Lee, New Jersey, United States)
Associated Group: Sonora Matancera (Musical group) Carnegie Hall (New York, N.Y.) naf
Celia, 2004 t.p. (Celia Cruz) p. 11 (b. Ursula Hilaria Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso)
Cruz, C. 100% azucar! [SR] p1997 label (Celia Cruz) insert (b. Oct. 21, 1924, Havana, Cuba)
New York times, July 17, 2003 (Celia Cruz, 77, Cuban singer; d. July 16, 2003, Fort Lee, N.J.)
Salsa musicians Singers
Valvarde, U. Celia Cruz, reina rumba, 1981 t.p
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