| 20/07/2021 – 14:56 (GMT-4)
A DNA test of the African Ancestry company, dedicated to the ancestral search for genetic information, by the ancestors of the Cuban mythical myth Celia Cruz in the African ethnicity of Balanta, Guinea-Bissau.
It was made by one of the mayors of the communes who also endowed a language in this country, following a detachment from the agency EFE.
Follow the artist’s line that leads the investigators of the company to the ethnicity of the African nation. African Ancestry, founded in 2003 and convened in Washington DC, said in a statement that it was a way to honor the Cuban-speaking song.
“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.
‘Now we know that it belongs to the Balanta community (known as “those who resist”) and we are proud to celebrate the legacy of this way without precedents, ”said Paige.
Fue Celia Cody, sobrina y tocaya de Cruz, quien ofreció su ADN a través de een simple hisopado en la mejilla, explica el communicado, como part of the campaign “Remember Who You Are” (Recuerda quién eres), de la referida empresa.
Linda Bécquer Pritchett, other Celia Cruz resident in Georgia, Estados Unidos, dijo en redes sociales: “Muy interesante saber de donde vine mi ascendencia africana”.
La etnia Balanta is a topical representation of 30% of Guinea-Bissau’s población, in the 2011 era of 1,683,000 inhabitants. The other ethnic groups that compose the country are Fula (20%), Manjace (14%), Mandinga (13%) and Papd.
Discovered in 1446 by explorer Luso Nuno Tristão, the Republic of Guinea Bissau is located in Occidental Africa and is bordered to the north by Senegal, east and south by Guinea Conakry and west by the Atlantic Ocean. Its official idiom is Portuguese and it has 19 local languages.
In his music, Celia, a prominent representative of Cuban culture in exile, solia incorporate elements of African music.
The “salsa reina”, which in its prolific career has garnered a total of four Grammy awards, five Grammy Latinos and millions of discos sold worldwide, failed in New Jersey in the 77 years, in 2003.
The artist, born in La Habana in 1925, left Cuba in 1960, only one year after the triumph of the revolution led by the failed dictator Fidel Castro, and was an accomplished detractor of castrism.
Exiled in the United States through a health check in Mexico, where the “Sonora Matancera” took place. His figure is a world icon of Latin music.
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