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Byline: David Gates
CELIA CRUZ, 78 She never went back to Cuba after Castro took power in 1959, but Celia Cruz kept the island and its music in her heart. With the 1950s Afro-Cuban ensemble La Sonora Matancera, she combined the image of Carmen Miranda with the musicianship of Ella Fitzgerald. In exile, she became a Pan-Latin superstar, with such Nuyorican musicians as mambo king Tito Puente, cutting-edge salsero Willie Colon and the...
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