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Fania Records is a New York–based record label founded by Dominican-born composer and bandleader Johnny Pacheco and his American lawyer Jerry Masucci in 1964. The label took its name from a popular lu
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Celia Cruz
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Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso, known as Celia Cruz, was a Cuban-American singer and one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century. Cruz rose to fame in Cuba during the 1950s as a singer of gu
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…of its talent base that Pacheco envisioned. Among Fania's signature stars are Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez, Hector Casanova, Rey Reyes, Willie Colón, Celia Cruz, Larry Harlow, Joe Bataan, Ray Barretto, Ralfi Pagan, Luis "Perico" Ortiz, Bobby Valentín, Rubén Blades, Héctor Lavoe, Cheo Feliciano, Adalberto Santiago…
Cruz in 1957
Celia Cruz in the 1950s with the members of the Sonora Matancera in Havana
Cruz with her husband Pedro Knight, c. 1962
Celia Cruz performing in Paris at the Olympia in 1980