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Celia Cruz (October 21 1925 – July 16 2003) was a Cuban Salsa music|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".<ref name="NMAH">{{cite web|url=http://historywired.si.edu/object.cfm?ID=90|title=Celia Cruz's Shoes|publisher=National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution|accessdate=2008-06-09</ref> She spent most of her career living in New Jersey, and working in the United States and several Latin American countries.
Leila Cobo of ''Billboard Magazine'' once said "Cruz is indisputably the best known and most influential female figure in the history of Cuban music." Cruz once said in an interview "If I had a chance I wouldn't have been singing and dancing, I would be a teacher just like my dad wanted me to be".''
Early Life
Image:Celia&Pacheco 1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Celia Cruz and Johnny Pacheco (1970s)
Image:Cruz and Ros-Lehtinen1992a.jpg|thumb|Dexter Lehtinen, Celia Cruz, Alonso R. del Portillo, Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, and Pedro Knight in May 1992
Image:De La Vega graffiti of Celia Cruz -2.JPG|thumb|300px|Graffiti depiction of Cruz in Spanish Harlem by James De La Vega