Born in poverty, she became the lead singer of Cuba's greatest dance band, La Sonora Matancera.

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In 2006 his work was exhibited at the Fowler Museum in the exhibition Dance in Cuba: Photographs by Gil Garcetti.

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Salsa's success also testifies to the enduring appeal of son, the dance music of Batista's Cuba of the 1950s from which salsa derived.

ECONOMIST: The passing of an icon