Cuban-American singer Celia Cruz will be the first Latin singer to receive a tribute through the American Women Quarters Programfor which it will have its own Currency of 25 centsaccording to a statement from the United States Mint.
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The agency announced earlier this month the women who will be part of said program in 2024 and one of them is Cruz, who was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1925 and died in 2003 in New Jersey, United States.
Celia Cruz: a poor black woman who forged her worldwide success from Cuba
He American Women’s Quarters is a program that celebrates the achievements and contributions of American women”. It will last for four years: it started in 2022 and will continue until 2025.
In addition to the queen of salsa, the show’s class of 2024 also includes the following four women:
- Patsy Takemoto Mink, “the first woman of color to hold a seat in Congress”;
- Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, “Civil War surgeon, women’s rights advocate, and abolitionist”;
- Pauli Murray, “poet, writer, activist, lawyer and Episcopal priestess, as well as a staunch defender of civil rights, fighting against racial and sexual discrimination”; and
- Zitkala-Ša, “also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, a writer, composer, educator, and political activist who championed Native Americans’ right to United States citizenship and other civil rights long denied to them.”
Sheet music that belonged to Celia Cruz was donated to a university in Miami
Known as Cuba’s guarachera, Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alonso, born on the island, became known as an emblem of the Cuban-American community. She was born in Havana in 1925 and became known in the 1950s as the main voice of La Sonora Matancera.
In 1966 he traveled to New York and combined his talent with that of Tito Puente. In the 1970s, he began to stand out in the salsa genre, becoming perhaps its greatest exponent and sharing the stage with the most important artists in the world. Throughout his long career he has won, among many other awards, five Grammy Awards and the National Medal of Arts in the United States. He passed away in July 2003 at the age of 78 at his home in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
The designs of the coins of Celia Cruz and the rest of the honorees will be published in mid-2023. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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