I find those early albums with La Sonora Matancera to be some of the best she ever did. Happy 90th La Sonora! You have created some of the hottest, most sublime music that Cuba ever produced. Here is ...

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.

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 of death was not given, but ...

When a schoolteacher named Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso replaced Myrta Silva as the singer of La Sonora Matancera in 1950, something cracked in Cuban popular music. A black ...