Profile: Smithsonian exhibit pays tribute to Celia Cruz

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JENNIFER LUDDEN
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
05-21-2005
Profile: Smithsonian exhibit pays tribute to Celia Cruz

Host: JENNIFER LUDDEN
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM

JENNIFER LUDDEN, host:

She was born Celia dela Caridad Cruz Alfonso in Havana, possibly in 1924 or '25. She used to say it was 1929. She left Cuba for the US only six months after Fidel Castro came to power. Celia Cruz died of cancer almost two years ago. Her funeral procession stretched for a mile and a half along Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Nearly 100,000 people filed past her coffin in Miami. So it's no wonder that the Smithsonian ...

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