Discover that Celia Cruz’s races are the African ethnic Balanta

Miami. The African races of the legendary Cuban legend Celia Cruz (1925-2003) were restored to the community of Balanta, in Guinea-Bissau, one of the major ethnic groups that also endowed a language in this country, revealing this market to the business African Ancestry, dedicated to the ancestral search and traverses of the ADN.

African Ancestry, founded in 2003 and convened in Washington DC, used an ascension test to restore the Cruz’s maternal line to the Balanta del citado pais African city community and to honor it, to agree with a community.

“For us, it’s an emotional moment, because Celia Cruz fully adopted her African heirloom in her life and music, which is a huge innovator for her era,” said Gina Paige, president and co-founder of African Ancestry.

As part of the campaign “Remember Who You Are” (Recorded who is here), of this company, Celia Cody, Sobrina and Tocaya of Cruz, taken from her ADN through a simple hiccup in the mail, explains the communication.

The result of the level test the Balanta ethnic group, which currently represents 30% of Guinea’s Bissau population.

According to estimates by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Guinea-Bissau population and the 2011 era of 1,683,000 inhabitants. Most ethnic groups are Balanta (30%), Fula (20%), Manjace (14%), Mandinga (13%) and Papd (7%).

The Republic of Guinea Bissau was discovered in 1446 by the Portuguese explorer Nuno Tristão. It is located in African Africa and is bordered to the north by Senegal, to the east and to Guinea Conakry and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean.

Its official idiom is the Portuguese, although there are 19 local languages, among them the balance.

Nacida in La Habana, and failed in New Jersey (United States), Cruz in general incorporates in his interpretations the influences of the Yoruba Tribe (a Nigerian ethnic group), as the master of his African organ.

“We now know that it belongs to the Balanta community (known as” those who resist “) and we are proud to celebrate its legacy in this way without precedent,” said Paige.

Contact the base of 30,000 samples of ADN africano indigene, African Ancestry determines specific countries and ethnic groups of origin with a level of detail, precision and confidence without equal, based on the web.

Cruz, todo an icon of Latin music and considered “the queen of salsa”, was one of the most popular songs in the industry, with a total of four Grammy awards, five Grammy Latinos and millions of discos sold all over the world .

In 1960, one year after the triumphant tribe captured by Fidel Castro, Celia Cruz abandoned the island of the nation, approving a salute to act in Mexico with the “Sonora Matancera” -orchestra of which he was soloist-, was exiled in the United States, y nunca volvió a su isla.