Word: salsas
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...Place des Vosges, I walked into the narrow passages of the Marais district and stumbled upon an impromptu block party. Someone had set up a sound system on the sidewalk, and the street was packed with people--straight and gay, young and old, black and white--dancing to salsa...
...storm. Cruz sang with everybody who was anybody in Latin music--fronting Johnny Pacheco's band, appearing with Tito Puente in the movie The Mambo Kings--and many future somebodies were listening. Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, Ruben Blades and La India acknowledged her influence. Known as the Queen of Salsa, she once said, "Salsa is ... all the Cuban rhythms under one name." You could say the same about Cruz. --By Christopher John Farley
...Place des Vosges, I walked into the narrow passages of the Marais district and stumbled upon an impromptu block party. Someone had set up a sound system on the sidewalk, and the street was packed with people - straight and gay, young and old, black and white - dancing to salsa...
...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...
...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.