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Music video by The Pussycat Dolls performing Jai Ho (You Are My Destiny)...
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Music video by The Pussycat Dolls performing Jai Ho (You Are My Destiny)
with Thomas Kloss [Video Director], Kathy Angstadt [Video Producer], Missy Galanida [Video Producer]
(C) 2009 Pussycat Dolls, LLC
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Celia Cruz (October 21, 1925 -- July 16, 2003) was a Cuban salsa singer,...
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Celia Cruz (October 21, 1925 -- July 16, 2003) was a Cuban salsa singer, and was one of the most successful Cuban performers of the 20th century, with twenty-three gold albums to her name.
She was renowned internationally as the "Queen of Salsa," as well as "La guarachera de Cuba". She spent most of her career living in New Jersey, and working in the United States and several Latin American countries.
Celia Cruz was born Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso in the diverse Santos Suárez neighborhood of Havana, Cuba, on October 21, 1925, the second child of Catalina Alfonso and Simón Cruz. Simón worked in the railroads as a stoker, and Catalina took care of the extended family.
While growing up in Cuba's diverse 1930s musical climate, Cruz listened to many musicians that later influenced her adult career, such as Paulina Alvarez, Fernando Collazo, Abelardo Barroso, Pablo Quevedo, Arsenio Rodriguez, and Arcaño y sus Maravillas.
When she was a teenager, her aunt took her and her cousin to cabarets to sing, but her father encouraged her to keep attending school, in hopes that she would become a Spanish language teacher. However, one of her teachers told her that as an entertainer she could earn in one day what most Cuban teachers earned in a month.
Cruz began singing in Havana's radio station Radio Garcia-Serra's popular "Hora del Té" daily broadcast, she sang the tango "Nostalgias", (and won a cake as first place) often winning cakes and also opportunities to participate in more contests. Her first recordings were made in 1948 in Venezuela. Before that, Cruz had recorded for radio stations.
She thanked her young nephew Cesar for all the hard work he put into it also. "He was an amazing little boy he was like my own son, rest in peace Cesar".
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