"Read about "La Reina de la Salsa" in Hispanic Star: Celia Cruz, and learn the most groundbreaking, iconic Hispanic and Latinx heroes that have shaped our culture and the world in this gripping biography series for young readers. If you can see it, you can be it. Meet the Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz—once just a girl from Havana, Cuba, who loved to sing. Her soulful voice, compelling charm, and unstoppable determination led to her meteoric rise to fame, opening the door for Latinx performers everywhere. Her booming career took her from the Sonora Matancera to the Fania All-Stars, with the rising popularity of salsa, a genre born of Afro-Cuban musical stylings. Six decades and more than seventy albums later, Celia’s influence still has an undeniable hold on today’s music." -- publisher
Themes & Content
- Central Theme Categories
- Biography/Autobiography
- Settings
- Americas
- Ethnicity
- Cuban
- Immigration Representation
- Refugees/Asylum Seekers
- Gender Representation
- Girls/Women
- Sexual Orientation / Relationship Representation
- Heterosexual
- Race / Culture
- Black/African/African American
- Latinx/Hispanic/Latin American
- Religion
- Christian
- Character Prominence
- Dominant Main
- Illustrator Lived Experience
- Illustrator not same race/culture but shares another identity
