It was 90 years ago that Valentin Cane and Pablo Vazquez Gobim founded one of the greatest of all Cuban groups, La Sonora Matancera (The Sound of Matanzas). As the group’s name would suggest, it all ...

Listen to this playlist on Spotify or Apple Music. When a schoolteacher named Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso replaced Myrta Silva as the singer of La Sonora Matancera in 1950, ...

ARCADIA, Calif., Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Pedro Knight, lead trumpet player for Cuba's La Sonora Matancera band and husband of "Queen of Salsa" Celia Cruz, died at 85 in an Arcadia, Calif., hospital. A cause ...

Pedro Knight, a former lead trumpet player for Cuba’s legendary band La Sonora Matancera and the devoted husband of the late “Queen of Salsa” Celia Cruz, whose career he helped guide, has died. He was ...

Celia Cruz, the Cuban-born singer who went from Havana nightclubs to become the “queen of salsa”, has died.

La Sonora Matancera with Celia Cruz circa the 1950s (The original image is no longer available, please contact KCRW if you need access to the original image.) It was 90 years ago that Valentin Cane ...