Celia Cruz

Edelman, Claudia Romo/ Alexander, William/ Beguez, Alexandra (Illustrator)

ISBN 10: 1250828139 / ISBN 13: 9781250828132

Editore: Roaring Brook, 2022

128 pages. 7.95x5.47x0.35 inches. In Stock. Codice articolo 1250828139

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Read about "La Reina de la Salsa" in Hispanic Star: Celia Cruz, and learn the most groundbreaking, iconic Hispanic and Latinx heroes that have shaped our culture and the world in this gripping biography series for young readers, perfect for fans of the Who Was series.

If you can see it, you can be it.

Meet the Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz--once just a girl from Havana, Cuba, who loved to sing. Her soulful voice, compelling charm, and unstoppable determination led to her meteoric rise to fame, opening the door for Latinx performers everywhere. Her booming career took her from the Sonora Matancera to the Fania All-Stars, with the rising popularity of salsa, a genre born of Afro-Cuban musical stylings. Six decades and more than seventy albums later, Celia's influence still has an undeniable hold on today's music.

Hispanic Star proudly celebrates Hispanic and Latinx heroes who have made remarkable contributions to American culture and have been undeniable forces in shaping its future.

Informazioni sugli autori: Claudia Romo Edelman is the founder of the We Are All Human Foundation and Hispanic Star and has worked for twenty-five years with internationally recognized institutions, including the United Nations, the Global Fund, the World Economic Forum, and UNICEF. She's led some of the most successful global campaigns in the last decade, including Product (RED), the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals in collaboration with the United Nations, the creation of the SDG Lions, and the rebranding of the UN Refugee Agency.

William Alexander is a National Book Award-winning Cuban-American who usually writes unrealisms like Goblin Secrets, Ambassador, and A Properly Unhaunted Place. He teaches in the Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Alexandra Beguez is a Cuban-American illustrator and cartoonist who was born and raised in New Jersey. Alexandra has received awards and recognition from the Society of Illustrators in New York and Los Angeles, 3x3 Magazine, Creative Quarterly Journal, and Latin American Ilustración. She is a recipient of the 2021 New Jersey Artist Fellowship Grant, awarded by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Her work has appeared in The Nib, The Believer Magazine, Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream, the Hispanic Star series. She also contributed to the graphic novel anthology, Guantanamo Voices, which received the 2021 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize and was a finalist for the Eisner Awards in the Best Anthology category and was included in The New York Times' Best Graphic Novels of 2020 list.

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: Celia Cruz
Casa editrice: Roaring Brook
Data di pubblicazione: 2022
Legatura: Paperback
Illustratore: Beguez, Alexandra
Condizione: Brand New