Celia Cruz already has its own street in New York, the city that saw her sing countless times and where she rests in peace.
Local politicians and friends of the deceased Salsa Queen they unveiled on Wednesday a new sign with the words Celia Cruz Way on a street in the Bronx, also known as the salsa county.
Her courage and persistence inspire us every daysaid Councilor Fernando Cabrera during the ceremony of appointment of the street. We are very proud of who she was and who she is in our hearts.
Cabrera unveiled the sign on the esquina from Reservoir Avenue with West 195 Street to the applause of some thirty present and some shout of Azcar!, the one that the singer often used in her presentations.
Behind the ceremony, various members of the orchestra from the nearby High School of Music Celia Cruz They played Life is a Carnival and La negra has tumbao, two great hits by Cruz, in an open space of the school.
At least three other streets and squares in USA They are named after the legendary Cuban sauce boat, said Omer Pardillo, Cruz’s former manager and president of the Celia Cruz Foundation, who was present at the ceremony. The streets are in Miami, Los Angeles and Union City, New Jersey, where a Cuban community settled decades ago. There are also others in Spain, Costa Rica and Mexico, he noted.
But this street is very special because this is the city where Celia Cruz he chose to live part of his life, starting in the 1960s. He settled in this city and lived until his last day, he said. It is a city that brought you great joys. I have always said that the city of New York carries the sound of Celia Cruz on its walls.
History of Celia Cruz in New York
Cruz, who died in 2003 at age 78 at her home in Fort Lee, New Jersey, is buried in the cemetery of Woodlawn, in the Bronx.
He never wanted to be underground. That’s why he chose that place, where he found a space to make a mausoleumsaid Pardillo.
Cruz came to the United States in 1960, a year after the cuban revolution. He recorded more than 70 records, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Hollywood and in 1994 he received the National Medal of Arts, the highest governmental recognition for an artist in this country, from the then president. Bill Clinton.
Among the people who unveiled the sign Celia Cruz Waand on Wednesday morning the Puerto Rican Ruth Snchez Laviera was there, who was a friend and stylist of the salsa company.
This is a great honor, which she deserved, deserves, and will continue to deserve, she said. Snchez Laviera, sister of the poet Tato Laviera. She loved her town and her people. There isn’t a day that I don’t have to mention your name.
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