It was 90 years ago that Valentin Cane and Pablo Vazquez Gobim founded one of the greatest of all Cuban groups, La Sonora Matancera (The Sound of Matanzas). As the group’s name would suggest, it all ...
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, ...
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 ...
Bay Area salsa pioneer Benny Velarde is among those mourning the loss of salsa queen Celia Cruz, who died Wednesday in New Jersey at age 78. "The news of Celia Cruz's passing has saddened me deeply," ...
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 ...
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