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On 16 July 2003, the followers of Celia Cruz cried throughout the world, because she, with her extroverted personality, her charisma and her powerful voice, crossed borders at beyond the Spanish-speaking world: had become the Queen of Salsa and the Queen was dead
Fifteen years later, tribute acts are being prepared in the United States, including the display of their robes , their funny wigs and other items, which can be seen in the New York Bronx, Miami and Washington.
The admirers of the singer of the Caribbean no longer enjoy his "sugar" his sweet cry on stage with which he made the mbades crazy and no longer saw with his inseparable "little cotton head", as she called her husband, the trumpet player and conductor Pedro Knight with whom he was playing in an eternal love story.
Despite his success, having put the world to dance, in his country he was vetoed for his opposition to Fidel Castro and it was only in 2012 that his voice was heard for the first time on radio in Cuba, where he was born in 1925.
The pain of not being able to return to the island, from where he left to make a tour in Mexico in 1960 next to the Sonora Matancera and did not even come back to bury his mother, always accompanied him.
He had the opportunity to sing in 1990 at the US Naval Base. in the Bay Guantánamo where, upon his arrival, he knelt and kissed the ground three times, while he was leaving with a handful of earth that he asked to be filed in his coffin.
At the age of 15 years of his death, tributes go beyond July 16, marking the end of his fight against cancer at the age of 78, although his age has always been a mystery.
Her grave is the most visited in the Woodlawn Cemetery, in the Bronx County in New York where four years later the love of her life was buried, with whom she s & # 39; Is married 41 years old. On each anniversary of his death, the mausoleum opens its doors to pay tribute to the Queen
Her admirers come from all over the place and even leave letters there, like a mother who thanks her for her daughter. Cured of cancer, revealed Omer Pardillo former representative of the artist and executor of his legacy.
This year, the tribute includes several exhibitions alongside the Bronx with their robes, wigs and other items, is the largest, "Celia Forever" that will open on October 18 at the American Museum of the Cuban diaspora in Miami.
Woodlawn will pay tribute to "Celia lives" a sample in his chapel at the end of September, in the month of the Hispanic heritage
"Some time ago they wanted to do something and I told them it was the appropriate year, "added Pardillo. Miami "will be Celia's largest (sample) that has ever been done at the present time," with 700 pieces that include their trophies, dresses, wigs, documents, and that can be visited for a year.
The agenda also includes "Celia, the Musical" a tour project that "is very personal", which was created in December of last year to Miami and Lucrecia, a Cuban singer based in Spain, where work will arrive on August 18, at the Starlive Festival, in Marbella, accompanied by an orchestra and dancers
The musical that accompanies the life of the artist. The artist will return to Miami on November 16 and 17 to be presented at Center for the Performing Arts Adrienne Arsht . His fifty-five-year career, the interpreter of "Guantanamera" has accumulated countless awards and recognitions that have not ceased after his death, such as the United stamp. States Postal Service and its election as the first Latina in the Star Trek of the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York
"His legacy is very much alive, his memory and his people still remember him, his music is performed all over the world I feel honored, "said Pardillo, EFE
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