Celia Cruz Net Worth
Celia Cruz was a Cuban-American salsa singer/performer who had a net worth of $1 million. She earned twenty-three gold albums and was internationally renowned as the Queen of Salsa, La Guarachera de Cuba as well as The Queen of Latin Music.
Cruz grew up in Cuba’s diverse 1930s musical landscape, where she listened to a plethora of musicians who influenced her adult career. Despite her mother’s opposition, as a child, Cruz learned santería songs from her neighbor who practiced santería. Cruz later studied the words to Yoruba songs with colleague Mercedita Valdes and recorded several religious songs.
Cruz began singing in Havana’s radio station Radio Garcia-Serra’s popular Hora del Té daily broadcast, where she sang the tango nostalgias and won first place. Her first recordings were in 1948 in Venezuela. On July 16, 2003, Cruz died of brain cancer at her home in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the age of 77.
On March 16, 2011, Celia Cruz was honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a commemorative postage stamp. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History collaborated with photographer Robert Weingarten to create a portrait of Celia Cruz, and the portrait was unveiled October 3, 2012.
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