Celia Cruz: 100 Years of Carnival

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“I am looking for you lost among dreams...,” says the song Te busca (1993), not the most popular, but for some the most sentimental that Celia Cruz played, who on October 21 would have turned 100. She was born in Havana (Cuba, 1925) and died in Fort Lee (New Jersey, USA) on July 16, 2003, away from her homeland because of her declared enmity with Fidel Castro’s dictatorship. 22 years after that goodbye, but the guarachera keeps ringing, as she s…