Titus Rivas
Senior Registered
I just read the following news item article about Celia Cruz:
Was salsa queen Cruz reincarnation of cousin?
By Knight Ridder Newspapers
July 18, 2004
It seems like a cliche to say Celia Cruz is assured of her place as one of Latin music's immortals until you realize that up to her death a year ago she believed she was immortal.
The new book, "Celia: My Life," begins with the story that explains it. "Celia believed she was a reincarnation of a cousin of hers who died in infancy," Ana Cristina Reymundo, the co-author of Cruz"s autobiography, said. "When Celia's mother was pregnant with Celia, her sister Ana's daughter died in a town called Pinar del Rio. Celia"s mother traveled there from Havana and found her clinging to the cadaver of the baby. They believed that when a baby dies like that their soul will return, and the way to assure that is to mark the baby in some way.
"At the wake, Ana was beyond grief; all she could do was stare at the coffin. Suddenly --; and Celia's mother had no idea she would do this --Ana took the baby's fingers and bent them until they cracked. Celia's mother nearly fainted, and she said she felt her baby, Celia, jump.
"Celia was born a few weeks later. At one point they were bathing her, and she stretched Celia's hands and realized that her pinky finger was completely bent toward the thumb. Then she opened up the other hand and realized it was the same. So she calls her mother, Dolores, and said, 'Tell Ana her daughter is here!"
"Most of us are preoccupied with our inevitable mortality," concluded Reymundo. "Celia had a powerful understanding that the soul is eternal."
Titus
Was salsa queen Cruz reincarnation of cousin?
By Knight Ridder Newspapers
July 18, 2004
It seems like a cliche to say Celia Cruz is assured of her place as one of Latin music's immortals until you realize that up to her death a year ago she believed she was immortal.
The new book, "Celia: My Life," begins with the story that explains it. "Celia believed she was a reincarnation of a cousin of hers who died in infancy," Ana Cristina Reymundo, the co-author of Cruz"s autobiography, said. "When Celia's mother was pregnant with Celia, her sister Ana's daughter died in a town called Pinar del Rio. Celia"s mother traveled there from Havana and found her clinging to the cadaver of the baby. They believed that when a baby dies like that their soul will return, and the way to assure that is to mark the baby in some way.
"At the wake, Ana was beyond grief; all she could do was stare at the coffin. Suddenly --; and Celia's mother had no idea she would do this --Ana took the baby's fingers and bent them until they cracked. Celia's mother nearly fainted, and she said she felt her baby, Celia, jump.
"Celia was born a few weeks later. At one point they were bathing her, and she stretched Celia's hands and realized that her pinky finger was completely bent toward the thumb. Then she opened up the other hand and realized it was the same. So she calls her mother, Dolores, and said, 'Tell Ana her daughter is here!"
"Most of us are preoccupied with our inevitable mortality," concluded Reymundo. "Celia had a powerful understanding that the soul is eternal."
Titus
It was very interesting.
