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The 16 pages that link to Celia Cruz, each with the reason it gives.

• Salsa musicRelated: Her powerful voice and repertoire made her one of salsa’s defining stars.

• Son cubanoRelated: Her career shows how son-derived Cuban styles traveled through salsa.

• Cuban exileRelated: Her career made Cuban cultural identity audible across the diaspora.

• Latin musicRelated: Her career carried Cuban and salsa music to audiences across the Americas.

• MamboRelated: Her early career with Sonora Matancera connected her to mambo’s mid-century dance scene.

• Afro-Cuban jazzRelated: Her collaborations with Latin jazz orchestras show the style’s ties to vocal dance music.

• Tito PuenteRelated: Puente worked with Cruz on recordings that brought their dance-band sound to broad audiences.

• Spanish-language musicRelated: Her career carried Cuban-rooted music to audiences throughout the Spanish-speaking world and beyond.

• Fania RecordsRelated: Her Fania-era success helped broaden the visibility of women in the label’s salsa world.

• Gloria EstefanRelated: Cruz and Estefan became prominent Cuban-born artists in the United States across different generations.

• Pérez PradoRelated: Cruz recorded with Prado, linking his orchestral mambo to a later generation of Cuban popular music.

• Alicia AlonsoRelated: Like Alonso, Cruz became a globally recognized Cuban artist whose career developed largely outside Cuba.

• CachaoRelated: Cruz and Cachao shared the broader Cuban musical world that shaped salsa’s development.

• Music of CubaRelated: Her career carried Cuban vocal traditions to audiences across the Americas.