CELIA CRUZ

For her third studio album, Camila Cabello immersed herself in the Cuban and Mexican music she listened to while growing up.

They both carved out sterling reputations as military and political leaders over years of public service.

New Jersey will honor nine of its most illustrious citizens by slapping their names on rest stops along the turnpike. Scott Simon muses over what becomes a legend most.

The musician rose to fame in the 1960s and '70s, bringing global attention to his hip-shaking style of music.

If you visit the greater Miami area, you can enjoy tastes of Cuban culture nearly anywhere — whether sharing a colada with friends at a downtown ventanita, dancing to a Celia Cruz tune at a South Beach bar or watching the domino players in Little Havana on a Sunday afternoon.

(AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)NEW YORK – Salsa idol Johnny Pacheco, who was a co-founder of Fania Records, Eddie Palmieri’s bandmate and backer of music stars such as Rubén Bladés, Willie Colón and Celia Cruz, died Monday. He had been hospitalized in New York a few days earlier for pneumonia, his wife, Maria Elena “Cuqui” Pacheco, said on the artist’s Facebook account. Fania Records tweeted that the musician was “the man most responsible for the genre of salsa music. He received the Latin Recording Academy Music Excellence Award in 2005 and was nominated for multiple Grammys and Latin Grammys. ___Associated Press writer Sigal Ratner-Arias reported this story in New York and AP writer Berenice Bautista reported from Mexico City.