Celia Cruz, la guarachera de Cuba, died in 2003, but her fans vow to make her live forever as their true and only Queen.
One of her last hits, was a tune shown in a YouTube video that you can see by clicking just here. I doubt a video like that could've been shot in the US, so thumbs up to the city of Madrid for letting it happen. The embedding features in YouTube have been disabled for every copy there... too little cloth I imagine.
Still, I found "La Negra Tiene Tumbao" in a different site. I have to say that what I find most interesting in the video is the portrayal of men (and woman), who can't help themselves but to surrender to the amazing cat walk.
Celia Cruz has been labelled the most influencial female Cuban artist, and rightly so. Not the stereotype of today's female singers wearing skimpy outfits with a troupe of dancers in the background trying to fill in the spectacle. I had the fortune to be at one of her concerts a few years back... she got on stage alone, no dancers, no back singers, an imposing woman in her sixties, a smile you could see at the very back, and that voice of thunder pulsating rhythm that commanded the audience to follow her. Very special indeed. That was a street concert on a rainy day, but some 100,000 souls still showed up to see her. She kept singing, even under the rain, and the sea of umbrellas opened up and kept moving to the rhythm.
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