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...CELIA CRUZ, who died last week, left her native Cuba in 1960 and spent the rest of her life taking listeners back there through her music. She was born around 1924, but was coy about her exact birth year. After growing up in Havana, she joined the band La Sonora Matancera. When Fidel Castro took over Cuba in 1959, she left for the U.S., where her career flourished. Her contralto voice was like the waters that separate Miami and Havana--inviting, sun-kissed, capable of rising up in a storm. Cruz sang with everybody who was anybody in Latin music...
...Died. Celia Cruz, 78, flamboyant singer known as the "Queen of Salsa," who recorded more than 70 albums; in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Cruz fled her native Cuba after the 1959 revolution and became a star in a traditionally male genre with her operatic voice, sequined costumes, outrageous wigs and trademark shout of "Azúcar!" (Spanish for sugar.) She won three Latin Grammys and two Grammys, including best salsa album this year for La Negra Tiene Tumbao...
...three young men who had hijacked an aging ferryboat in Havana Bay were executed by firing squad. This week, just days after Compay Segundo's death, two separate boat hijackings left 3 dead and a 10-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to the head. On Wednesday, Celia Cruz, the Cuban-born "Queen of Salsa" whom Castro barred from ever returning to Cuba, died in exile in New Jersey at the age of 78.
...invited them to play their first London show - opening for him at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall last September. Although Deasy insists "it's the lazy assumption that this is just a summer album," these tunes wouldn't sound quite right on a rainy day. Take the opener Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far), with its bouncy bass and sun-streaked harmonies. Deasy's breathy vocals (his Emerald Isle accent dissolving into a surfer's drawl) make him sound like J. Mascis backed by the Beach Boys. Big Sur begs to be blared from a car speeding along...
...Crimson’s hot stretch began during its first-ever appearance at the NorCal Invitational, which features 16 of the top teams in the country. There, Harvard beat UC-Santa Cruz and then-No. 19 UC-Davis to finish 13th after falling to then-No. 12 UC-Santa Barbara and then-No. 3 and eventual tournament champion...