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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...
...York City-based nonprofit Red Hot Organization. Over the past nine years, Red Hot, working with various record labels, has produced a dozen albums, each one featuring some sly subgenre mix, with all net profits going to the fight against AIDS. Red Hot's latest compilation, Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon (Bar/None), features music from Portuguese-speaking countries (Brazil, Angola, etc.) crossed with clubland beats. Obscure? Maybe. Cool? Definitely...
...newest release, Onda Sonora (Portuguese for sound wave), explores similar territory. It's a challenging album that offers peformances by Veloso, k.d. lang, Cape Verdean singer Lura as well as the enchanting sound of Fado--a kind of Portuguese folk-blues. Next up: a CD featuring R.-and-B. stars tackling the music of Duke Ellington. Looks as if Red Hot will stay that way for a long time...
Penny saving is just the start. Sonora's Stanislaus National Forest has 811 miles of rivers and streams, 1,200 miles of trails and 1,258 campsites. The region boasts two nearby ski resorts, including the Dodge Ridge Wintersports area, which offers significant discounts for adults 62 and over...
...Sonora's golden history is well preserved. A restored gold-rush town at the Columbia State Historic Park has a blacksmith shop, saloon and gold mine. Other historical attractions include the Tuolumne County Museum, located in a 100-year-old jail, and Railtown 1897, in nearby Jamestown, where visitors can ride on the Sierra Railroad and tour a railroad museum. For a trip back in time that will last your whole stay, consider lodging at the City Hotel, a 140-year-old 10-room inn with mystery weekends and ghost walking tours...