Celia Cruz left Cuba in 1960, the year after Castro's revolution, and spent the rest of her life in exile — never returning, even to bury her mother. Son Con Guaguanco was recorded in New York in 1966 with the Sonora Matancera, the band she had led through Cuba's golden era of son and guaracha. It was the sound of a culture being kept alive at a distance, and Cruz poured everything into it. She would go on to record 37 studio albums, earn the nickname Queen of Salsa, and remain the most recognised Cuban voice in the world until her death in 2003.
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