{"id":92445,"date":"2021-02-03T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-legendary-latin-artist-celia-cruzs-african-roots-revealed-through-living-descendants-and-africanancestry-com\/"},"modified":"2021-02-03T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T16:00:10","slug":"se-descubrio-que-celia-cruz-legendaria-artista-latina-tenia-raices-africanas-a-traves-de-descendientes-vivos-y-africanancestry-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/se-descubrio-que-celia-cruz-legendaria-artista-latina-tenia-raices-africanas-a-traves-de-descendientes-vivos-y-africanancestry-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Latin Artist Celia Cruz&#8217;s African Roots Revealed Through Living Descendants and AfricanAncestry.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Feb. 3, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Known to many as <b>&#8216;<\/b>La Guarachera de <span class=\"xn-location\">Cuba<\/span>&#8216; and the &#8216;Queen of Salsa,&#8217; <span class=\"xn-person\">Celia Cruz<\/span>, the most popular Latin artist of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century, posthumously adds the <b>Balanta people of <span class=\"xn-location\">Guinea-Bissau<\/span><\/b> to her distinguished legacy. As part of AfricanAncestry.com&#8217;s <i>Remember Who You Are campaign<\/i>, Cruz&#8217;s iconic roots were traced using the DNA of a niece on her maternal line.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an exciting moment for us because <span class=\"xn-person\">Celia Cruz<\/span> fully embraced her African heritage in life and her music, which is pretty trailblazing for her time,&#8221; said AfricanAncestry.com President and Co-founder <span class=\"xn-person\">Gina Paige<\/span>. &#8220;We&#8217;re proud to support the growing number of people from <span class=\"xn-location\">Latin America<\/span>, the <span class=\"xn-location\">Caribbean<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Canada<\/span>, etc., turning to us to add the &#8216;African&#8217; to their identities and legends such as Cruz paved the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AfricanAncestry.com used its single lineage MatriClan<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> test to trace <span class=\"xn-person\">Celia Cruz&#8217;s<\/span> mother&#8217;s mothers&#8217; line to the Balanta people of <span class=\"xn-location\">Guinea-Bissau<\/span> as means to honor Cruz. <span class=\"xn-person\">Celia Cody<\/span>, Cruz&#8217;s niece and namesake provided her DNA through a simple swabbing of the cheek. <\/p>\n<p>Records show that nearly 600,000 enslaved Africans were brought to <span class=\"xn-location\">Cuba<\/span> during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Born in <span class=\"xn-location\">Havana<\/span>, Cruz often integrated Yoruban Tribal influences in her work as a fearless show of African pride. &#8220;We now know she&#8217;s of the Balanta people &#8212; known as &#8216;those who resist&#8217; &#8212; and we are honored to celebrate her legacy in this unprecedented way,&#8221; said Paige.<\/p>\n<p>To see the video Reveal of <span class=\"xn-person\">Celia Cruz&#8217;s<\/span> ancestry, visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3056017-1&amp;h=2566458585&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.africanancestry.com%2Fremember&amp;a=AfricanAncestry.com%2FRemember\" rel=\"nofollow\">AfricanAncestry.com\/Remember<\/a>. Visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3056017-1&amp;h=1035088027&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.africanancestry.com%2F&amp;a=www.AfricanAncestry.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.AfricanAncestry.com<\/a> for special Black History Month offers throughout February. For press inquiries in English and\/or Spanish, contact <span class=\"xn-person\">Daniel Ali<\/span> at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:Gatekeeper@TaylorCommunicationsGroup.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gatekeeper@TaylorCommunicationsGroup.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  AfricanAncestry.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Feb. 3, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Known to many as <b>&#8216;<\/b>La Guarachera de <span class=\"xn-location\">Cuba<\/span>&#8216; and the &#8216;Queen of Salsa,&#8217; <span class=\"xn-person\">Celia Cruz<\/span>, the most popular Latin artist of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century, posthumously adds the <b>Balanta people of <span class=\"xn-location\">Guinea-Bissau<\/span><\/b> to her distinguished legacy. As part of AfricanAncestry.com&#8217;s <i>Remember Who You Are campaign<\/i>, Cruz&#8217;s iconic roots were traced using the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}