Thousands Paid Last Respect to the Queen of Salsa

World | July 22, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
Thousands Paid Last Respect to the Queen of Salsa Thousands of fans said goodbye to Celia Cruz, The Queen of Salsa, who died last week at age 78 of a brain tumor.Photo by AP

Thousands of fans said goodbye to Celia Cruz, The Queen of Salsa, who died last week at age 78 of a brain tumor. Thousands of mourners were expected to line the streets for the procession Tuesday, when a horse-drawn carriage was set to take Cruz' body to St. Patrick's Cathedral for a public funeral Mass. Throngs of fans waited patiently for hours to pay their last respect to the Queen of Salsa.

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