MIAMI.- Almost a month to commemorate the 21 years of the physical departure of Celia Cruz, the music of the Guarachera del Mundo continues to sound and be emblematic of Hispanic culture. And regarding this date, we bring to light the reason that led to the Cuban to add your distinctive ‘sugar‘ in his songs, shows and interviews.
It was in the Colombian program Yo, Down Gabriel where the Queen of Salsa explained when and why she started saying ‘sugar’.
“I was in Miami in a Cuban restaurant, of course eating, and when I finished eating, the waiter asked me if I want coffee, well of course all blacks drink coffee… he told me: ‘how do you want it, with sugar or without sugar?’ Then I tell him: boy, look, you are Cuban, you know well how strong our coffee is, how are you going to ask me whether with sugar or without sugar?, with sugar, boy, with sugar’, that’s what I told him (laughs)”, Celia Cruz recalled in the interview carried out in the late show produced by the RCN chain.
“…well, that night, I was working in a cabaret in Miami that no longer exists and when I have to do a show by myself, which is an hour, an hour and a half, at a certain time I stop and start talking to the audience.” so that the orchestra – since my numbers are quite strong, especially the trumpeters – eh their lips rest – eh I told the story – which was the story of the day – and the people made that same half-silly laugh of yours, because it has nothing the story, I tell them the story about sugar and every day: ‘Celia Cruz the story about sugar, Celia Cruz…’ until one day I got tired of it and said: ‘today I won’t do any more stories,'” he added. the Cuban in the interview offered in December 2000.
The ‘sugar’ of Celia Cruz from 1964
Afterwards, Celia Cruz, accompanied by her husband Pedro Knight, noted that this anecdote occurred in the 1960s.
“The dressing rooms were upstairs and then when they announced me, I came down the stairs and they kept saying with all their mouths: ‘sugar’ and they started applauding… thank you… look, people started applauding just like you, and even Now… this was, I would tell you at the end of the 60s or beginning of the 70s,'” he said. “In ’64,” Pedro stated.
“Pedro has a cacumen (head), so… the thing is that I have no longer been able to get – I would say from my repertoire – that word ‘sugar’… it’s good that people say ‘sugar’ and that’s like my battle cry,” explained the Guarachera del Mundo in the program dedicated to international celebrities and artists.
