Cuba's Celia Cruz still banned, and slandered by the dictatorship in Cuba but honored everywhere else Cuban salsa star's desire to live in freedom led to her banishment from Cuba

Celia Cruz, the Queen of Salsa, was born on October 21, 1925, in Havana, Cuba. Her birth name was Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso. notesfromthecubanexilequarter.substack.com/p/cubas-celi... #CeliaCruz100 #CeliaCruzCentenary
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