Celia Cruz To Be Honored With Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 13 Years After Her Death

Celia Cruz To Be Honored With Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 13 Years After Her Death

After scoring an 80-part novela on Telemundo (which you can watch in its entirety here, by the way), Celia Cruz will now be honored with a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Cruz – who perhaps has one of the most recognizable versions of “Guantanamera”– got her start in the 1940s with La Sonora Matancera in a pre-Castro Cuba. She had 23 gold albums, brought salsa to the masses, and reigned as its Queen for decades, which means that coming in 13 years after her death, the Recording Academy is slipping. In comparison, her frequent collaborator Tito Puente was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 – three years after his death.

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