La Sonora Matancera with Celia Cruz circa the 1950s (The original image is no longer available, please contact KCRW if you need access to the original image.) It was 90 years ago that Valentin Cane ...

ARCADIA, Calif., Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Pedro Knight, lead trumpet player for Cuba's La Sonora Matancera band and husband of "Queen of Salsa" Celia Cruz, died at 85 in an Arcadia, Calif., hospital. A cause ...

Pedro Knight, a former lead trumpet player for Cuba’s legendary band La Sonora Matancera and the devoted husband of the late “Queen of Salsa” Celia Cruz, whose career he helped guide, has died. He was ...

The Afro-Latina’s story begins on October 21, 1925, when she was born in Havana. The La Sonora Matancera band selected her ...

Listen to this playlist on Spotify or Apple Music. When a schoolteacher named Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso replaced Myrta Silva as the singer of La Sonora Matancera in 1950, ...

Ms. Cruz, a Cuban American singer known as the Queen of Salsa, was described by the U.S. Mint as “one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century.” By Isabella Simonetti Celia Cruz, a Cuban ...

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Pinecrest Gardens Celebrates the Queen of Salsa's Centennial and music greats Pinecrest Gardens and The Village of Pinecrest unveil a special exhibition and present three nights of concerts to ...