Celia Cruz was born on October 21, 1925 in a working-class neighborhood of Santos Suarez in Havana, Cuba. Celia Cruz was a Cuban-American singer, best known as one of the most popular salsa performers of all time. She was the second of four children. Her father, Simon Cruz, was a railroad stoker and her mother, Catalina Alfonso was a homemaker who took care of the extended family of fourteen. Celia Cruz grew up in a poor neighborhood in Santos Suarez, where Cuba’s diverse musical climate became a growing influence.
As a young girl, Celia loved music. She was responsible for putting the children who lived in her home to sleep with lullabies; but the songs she sang not only kept her children awake, they lured neighbors to the house. She was gifted
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The orchestra appeared in five motion pictures and toured the United States, Central and South America.
When Fidel Castro took power of Cuba in 1959, they were able to escape from Cuba by pretending they were going on another tour. Fidel Castro was so angry by what she did he did not allow her to visit the country when her mother was sick or when her father died. Celia and her husband, Pedro Knight, refused to return to their homeland and became citizen of the United States. Celia had to work very hard to earn her fame. For the next four decades, she worked with some of the most respected names in the Latin music, including her counterpart “El Rey de la Salsa”, Puerto Rico’s Tito Puente as well as Dominican “Godfather” of salsa music, Johnny Pacheco. She made more than 76 records, winning multiple Grammys and Latin Grammys. She also appeared in several movies. She received the “Hispanic Heritage Lifetime Achievement Award” in 1998.
Celia Cruz passed away on July 16, 2003 from Brain Cancer at the age of 77. She was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx,
Selena Quintanilla was born on April 16,1971 in Lake Jackson,Texas. She died on March 31,1995 in Corpus Christi,Texas. Selena Quintanilla was only twenty-three years old when she died. Her death was a big impact on life,music, and history. Selena Quintanilla had an amazing journey in life and it’s so sad it had to end so early. Finally, this is the story of Selena Quintanilla from start to the end.
Selena Quintanilla Perez was born on April 16, 1971 in Lake Jackson, Texas. Selena grew up understanding Spanish, but English was her first language. At the age of five Selena saw her brother learning to play the guitar and became jealous of the attention he was getting. She picked up a songbook and began to sing. Her family quickly turned their attention to her strong and beautiful voice. In the first grade Selena excelled at a game called Jump the Brook, in which two ropes are placed side by side and each kid takes a turn jumping across.1 In middle school Selena was in honors classes and made A’s and B’s. Selena used her allowance to put clothes on layaway. As a teenager, Selena hung all of her awards on the wall next to the staircase in her family’s house. As an adult, Selena was very involved with kids. She was a spokeswoman for the D.A.R.E. Program.
Known as the “Queen of Tejano” and the “Mexican Madonna”, Selena Quintanilla-Perez was the adored Latin singer who sadly did not get to live to see all of the success of her career. One of her most famous quotes is, “We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever but to create something that will (PhilosIblog, 2014).” That is just what Selena did and she made sure that her legacy would live on for years. Selena surely left a her mark in this world with the help of her family, in her short lived 23 years. Selena was an amazing singer, she even made it very far in a genre of music that was dominated by men. Selena Quintanilla-Perez is an influential person because of her loving personality, her music career, her determination to succeed in a genre that was only men, and her success with her music that will never stop playing even if she is not here.
Alvarez was born in New York and then moved to the Dominican Republic shortly after she was born . Later in 1960 , she immigrated back to New York and received her education in boarding schools . She has spent a majority of her life in the United States , and considers herself to be an American , yet she likes to bridge the two worlds of Latina and American culture . Most of her stories have hints of her Dominican roots but she show’s her experiences with human insight . Even though her
Celia, A Slave by Melton McLaurin tells a true story of a female slave who was sexually exploited by her master and the trial she faced as a result. At the young age of fourteen, Celia was brought to Callaway County under her new master, Robert Newsom. Celia later murdered Newsom, in an act of self-defense, and was placed on a trial challenging the institute of slavery and the moral beliefs of anyone involved with slavery in the South. The short life of the young Celia revealed a slave girl who had pushed beyond the ideal limit of a system that denied her humanity and threatened to erode the base of the antebellum southern society.
Selena Quintanilla was born on April 16, 1971, in Lake Jackson, Texas. Selena was considered the "Queen of Tejano," a type of Mexican music that incorporated other styles, such as country. She was also sometimes referred to as the "Mexican
Around the time of the late 1940s, Castro had joined in a group in which one of the leaders were killed. The Group was the socialist Party of the Cuban People. Castro stole guns for the group, and had returned home later that year. He had a children the year later, with his wife Mirta Diaz Bal...
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Lulu was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. Lulu likes writing about her own culture. Her books celebrate folklore and the traditions of Latinos in both English and Spanish. Lulu is both an author and an illustrator. One book that Lulu wrote is Arrorro`, Mi Nino, which is a collection of Latino lullabies and gentle games. This book shows lullabies and poems in both English and Spanish. It also gives you instructions on how to do actions to the songs to get your child or student involved in reading. This is a great way to incorporate songs, reading, and different
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Selena, “Le Reina de Tejano”, was born on April 16, 1971, in Lake Jackson. She was the youngest of three children of Abraham Quintanilla Jr. and Marcela, his wife. At a young age, Abraham had a strong passion for music that he still has. During the 1950s and 1960s, him and his friends made a group called “Los Dinos” and played at nightclubs and restaurants. Even though his passion for music, he gave it up when he got married and earned a job at Dow Chemical as a shipping clerk.
Celia, a Slave, a book by author Melton McLaurin, shows the typical relationship between a slave woman and her master in America during the 1850s. The story is the perfect example of how relationships between slave and their masters and other non-blacks within the community. This is shown through Celia’s murder of her slave owner, Robert Newsom. It was also shown through the community’s reaction that was involved in unraveling her court case. The Celia personal story illustrated how slave women was treated by their slave owners and how the laws wasn’t effective at protecting slave during the 1850s. Celia’s story help shed light on woman injustices, unconstitutional rights and most importantly racial issues/discrimination.
Following her heart, she continued pursuing her dreams; winning fancy cakes and more opportunities to showed her talent. Her big break was in 1950 when La Sonora Matancera was looking for a new leading singer, because her previous singer Mirtha Silva decided to quit to returned to her native Puerto Rico. Even though Celia Cruz was rough around the edges, they decided to give her a break. A lot of people call local radio station complaining about Cruz, also the executive in the industry did not believe that a female singer could sell albums. She proved them wrong. Celia ‘s perseverance ove...
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She was somewhat of a hero to Cuban people; seeing as though she had been a Cuban refugee, and became a great success in the U.S. Her recent passing was a devastation, not only to the Cuban society, but to all Latinos and many Americans as well. Which brings me to family. My Mother and Aunts grew up listening to and admiring Celia Cruz, so you can only imagine their reaction to her death. Our entire family is in mourning.