This Google Doodle honors Celia Cruz, known as the ‘Queen of Salsa’…She sang Afro-Cuban music and performed with the genre’s big stars like Johnny Pacheco’s band and Tito Puente in the movie The Mambo Kings (1992) and inspired many more like Gloria Estefan, Jennifer Lopez, and Marc Antony. Cruz earned several Grammys and Latin Grammys for her salsa and tropical albums, even a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. —Olivia Waxman
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