Cuban American salsa singer Celia Cruz onstage performing at VH1 Divas Live: The One and Only Aretha Franklin in New York City in 2001. Cruz is being honored on the U.S. quarter in 2024. Scott Gries/Getty Images hide caption
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Celia Cruz is one of the women featured in the Turning The Tables series. Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images/Getty Images hide caption
Celia Cruz, Xiomara Laugart Getty Images/NPR hide caption
Turning the Tables at Lincoln Center NPR hide caption
Turning The Tables: Celebrating Eight Women Who Invented American Popular Music
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Turning The Tables: Celebrating Eight Women Who Invented American Popular Music
Aymée Nuviola portrayed Celia Cruz in the Cuban telenovela Celia. Courtesy of NBC Telemundo hide caption
Chuck Berry is one of the early rock and roll artists who were inspired by Latin music. Terry Fincher/Getty Images hide caption
Angelique Kidjo's Celia celebrates the music of Celia Cruz. Laurent Seroussi/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Angélique Kidjo Celebrates Celia Cruz: 'Everything About Celia Is Self-Determination'
Angelique Kidjo on Celia Cruz NPR hide caption
Celia Cruz performs in New York in 1995. That same year, Deborah Paredez saw her at Chicago's Aragon Ballroom. "Cruz opened her mouth, the band lifted their horns and we came together on the dancefloor," she says. Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images/Getty Images hide caption
Celia Cruz. Tom Copi/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images hide caption
Turning The Tables: 8 Women Who Invented American Popular Music Chelsea Beck for NPR hide caption
Vocalist Angelique Kidjo pays tribute to Celia Cruz on her new album, Celia. Laurent Seroussi/Courtesy of the Artist hide caption
305 is a state of mind. Samantha Clark & Eslah Attar/NPR hide caption
For so many, the hope and joy that Celia Cruz embodied made her difficult ascension to fame a footnote to her success. Scott Gries/Getty Images hide caption
Etta James, left, Marvell Thomas and David Hood rehearse a song before recording at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Ala., circa 1967. House Of Fame LLC/Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images hide caption
Celia Cruz, the queen of salsa. Courtesy of the artist. hide caption
Latin Roots: Essential Divas
USC professor Josh Kun, who joins Alt.Latino for this week's show, is a co-founder of the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation, which in 2013 assembled a collection of Latino-Jewish music titled It's A Scream How Levine Does The Rhumba. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Celia Cruz. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Latin Roots: Women In Salsa
The Fania All-Stars in 1980. Judy Morales/Fania Records hide caption
The late Celia Cruz's version of "Jingle Bells" is featured on Tuesday's Latin Roots playlist. Courtesy of the artist hide caption