Celia Cruz
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"Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso " also known by her stage name "Celia Cruz" was a Cuban-United States/American salsa (music)/salsa singer/performer. One of the most popular salsa artists of the 20th century, she earned twenty-three gold albums and was a recipient of the National Medal of Arts. She was renowned internationally as the "Queen of Salsa", "La Guarachera de Cuba", as well as The Queen of Latin Music.

She spent much of her career 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".

She was part of the Ifá religion.

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You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public.

I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out.

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

Celia Cruz And Friends: A Night Of Salsa.

I love living on that stage. Without that, I'd die.

My life is singing. I don't plan on retiring. I plan to die on a stage. I can have a headache but when it's time to sing and I step on that stage there is no more headache.